Mashable’s roundup of the best Wifi names ever is pretty funny. Being a child of the ’90s, I was quite amused by “Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi.”
I feel like I need to step up my naming game… mine’s pretty generic (when it works).

Via Mashable

That should make it a whole lot easier! Link

Craftster user Omega Chicken made this sampler as a simple way to remember her WiFi password:

My housemate got the idea from when friends come over with laptops and mobile devices and always need to connect to her wifi. It was a hassle looking at the router every time and she doesn’t know how to change the password to something memorable and whenever she wrote it down on something, it’d get lost. So here it is to be framed and hung on the wall.

Link via Geek Crafts

Last year Google began offering free WiFi in 47 American airports.  Other airports have added this feature to accommodate the needs of business travelers.  Here’s a reminder that connecting to WiFi may open your laptop to strangers:

I was recently at New York’s JFK airport in the JetBlue terminal, where they have prominent signs offering free wi-fi, courtesy of the airline. But when I went to connect, I noticed that several options were available including one labeled “default” and another labeled “JetBlue free hotspot.” It turns out that the former was the actual free hotspot and the latter was the honeypot.

What tipped me off was that the “JetBlue free hotspot” was labeled in my Mac OS X “Airport” (i.e. wi-fi) menu as a “Computer-to-Computer network…”  If you connect to this network on an imperfectly protected Windows laptop, this hacker will have access to your data from his own computer.

More at the link.  The same principle would of course apply at non-airport facilities such as dining establishments.

Link.  Photo: Device Magazine.

Holland’s coffee shop chain CoffeeCompany installed free WiFi to attract university students. Problem is, they come into the store to use the WiFi but never even looked at the menu. So the company and THEY Amsterdam ad agency got creative:

THEY periodically changed the wireless network name from the normal "CoffeeCompany" to hardselling headlines. So when students connected to the network, they were greeted with headlines in their WiFi menu like "HaveYouTriedTheCarrotCake?" or "Mmm…YummyMuffinsOnly1,99".

The best part came when people yelled across the room to ask the barista what the name of the WiFi network was and the barista answered one of the WiFi lines like "OrderAnotherCoffeeAlready."

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