WiFi Password
Here we go with another daily strip! Yay!
You know, it never occurred to me before, but just as I upload this strip, I noticed that you say “WiFi” in English and “WLAN” in German. But actually “WLAN” is an English abbreviation. So why do English speakers use “WiFi”? I admit, I had to google the difference, but apparently, WiFi (or Wi-Fi?) is a particular kind of WLAN. It probably comes down to the fact that “double-u” is just cumbersome to pronounce, while “WiFi” just rolls off the tongue in English.
Anyway, anybody got a good home wifi name? Mine is named “Skynet”. Not very original, I have to admit, but I didn’t have too much time for creativity during setup.
Stef
Gotterdamerung. It replaced “dim flicker off”. (The three positions of a Lucas headlight switch) and the original was “chaos and confusion”
My PC’s hostname is skynet!:)
My mobile hotspot is called “NZSIS van 1”. NZSIS is the New Zealand Security and Intelligence Service. Occasionally you see people looking around trying to work out where it is.
My WiFi network is DEASurveillanceVan. Looking about the neighborhood, it seemed more appropriate then FBISurveilanceVan.
Mine was Skynet for awhile, when I got a new router it became “Fluffy the destroyer” from the ancient meme.
We had a neighbor who had issues with the law from time to time, so we called ours “DEA Special OPS” to freak him out…
😉
I’ll be back…
One of mine is “Cat Detector Van”
When we were in Bali in 2019, all the cafes, restaurants & bars featured free Wi-Fi so tourists could connect (most didn’t pay for roaming 🙂 ). Fun part was, the locals pronounced it “Wife-ee” and would say “Yes, we have wife-ee for you” 🙂
I couldn’t think of funky names for our 5GHz & 2.4GHz primary & guest networks so went with boring McMainLink, McLink24, McKiddoLink & McGuest 🙂
PS: Cat Detector Van is awesome 🙂
I use ‘Access Denied’, as network name, and as a message to neighbors…
If I ever set up an aviation-related network, would you mind if I called it “Ubergrossenbacher Enterprises?”