Comment 0 for bug 1856463

When I noticed the Menu bar showed a medium connection strength, I opened up the network menu in Settings. Settings showed a strong connection strength.

This inconsistency is a bug in itself and one of the two are wrong. You can see both the menu bar and system settings claiming two different strengths if you look at their icons in the attached screenshots.

I expect the system settings and the menu bar to be consistent on wi-fi strength

However, in actuality, one is claiming a medium strength connection, the other a stronger one, for the same network, which is NETGEAR18.

Because I am unsure of what is actually correct, I filed this under the network manager messing up. Network manager, the menu bar, and system settings appear to be out of sync.

I reported this bug as soon as it happened.

Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10

network-manager:
  Installed: 1.20.4-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.20.4-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.20.4-2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: network-manager 1.20.4-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 15 11:38:18 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-20 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp2s0 proto dhcp metric 600
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp2s0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.39 metric 600
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-11-27T12:43:30.211160
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
 running 1.20.4 connected started full enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled