great names for wifi
The Wi-Fi name is what guests see in a list. It does not have to be the random letters on the router sticker. Here are great names for wifi that are easy to spell, and a short list of names that cause problems later.
Names that work out loud
- Blue Kettle
- Slow Sunday
- Porch Light
- Second Slice
- Quiet Floor
- Paper Boat
- North Window
- Tiny Comet
- Room Temperature
- After Hours
Two ordinary words are enough. Avoid look-alike characters such as 0 and O, or 1 and l, because someone will type them wrong on a TV. Skip punctuation. Some older devices reject an apostrophe or an emoji even though your phone accepts it.
Names to skip
Do not use your street address, apartment number, full name, or the name of a child. That tells a stranger which door the network belongs to. Do not put the password, or a hint about the password, in the name. Do not copy a neighbor's name to be funny. Their devices, and yours, get confused, and it is hostile. A rude joke also shows up when a guest's coworker looks at the phone.
How to rename it
Sign in to the router or the mesh app, edit the SSID, and save. If you use one name for 2.4 GHz and another for 5 GHz, either keep that difference obvious, such as Blue Kettle and Blue Kettle 5, or combine them under one name if the router offers a single network. Every device must join the new name once. The password can stay the same. When they are back, test internet speed so a typo in the setup did not leave you on a guest network by mistake.
Back on your own network, test internet speed in the room that matters and compare download, upload, and jitter.