network manager prefers further away AP when there are multiple APs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Bug Description
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04. My Wifi set-up has multiple access points throughout my home, and they all have the same SSID. It doesn't matter where I am in my home though, network manager always connects to one particular AP. If I list all the access points with `nmcli dev wifi list` I can see that it even picks that one access point if it is the farthest away one:
* B4:FB:E4:45:CA:82 my_access_point Infra 157 405 Mbit/s 44 ▂▄__ WPA2
It is true that if I change the BSSID field in the wifi settings I can get it to connect to a particular one, but that is not sufficient. I have a laptop, and if I move around my home I need it to connect to the closest one, and switching manually to whichever one is closest is not practical.
I can't even create multiple entries for each BSSID in the list of networks, if I try many different networks appear with the same name and random numbers and I can't even label them.
This is network manager version 1.22.10-1ubuntu2.1
Thank you for your bug report, could you report this upstream on https:/ /gitlab. freedesktop. org/NetworkMana ger/NetworkMana ger/issues/ ?