Need a way to prioritise wifi networks

[Matthew Exon]

For various reasons I have four wifi networks in my house. Three of them are in the living room, one in my bedroom. When I'm in the bedroom my MX4 is normally trying to connect to one of the "wrong" three, resulting in lots of dropped packets and terrible network performance.

First, it should automatically connect to the strongest network available.

Second, there should be a way to prioritise my networks. In my case one is a "VPN" network where all traffic is routed through Singapore. This is essential when you need it and nightmarishly slow when you don't. Despite my VPN and non-VPN networks having the same signal strength, I need a way to tell my phone to preferentially connect to the non-VPN network when possible.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#previous-networks>: "When reprioritization of networks has been implemented in NetworkManager (bug 1245986), pressing on a network should make it draggable so that you can reorder the list."

[Matthew Exon (ubuntubugs-mexon)]

This is definitely a duplicate of Bug #1245986

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

Let's make this bug depend on Bug #1245986 for now. When it's implemented in the stack, let's add sorting to System Settings/indicator.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.