Public bug reported:
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:
76:83:C2:BB:34:2A -- Infra 36 405 Mbit/s
97 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
74:83:C2:BB:34:2A my_access_point Infra 36 405 Mbit/s
95 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
74:83:C2:BA:34:2A my_access_point Infra 1 195 Mbit/s
94 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
76:83:C2:BA:34:2A -- Infra 1 195 Mbit/s
94 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
B6:FB:E4:45:CA:82 -- Infra 157 405 Mbit/s
44 ▂▄__ WPA2
* B4:FB:E4:45:CA:82 my_access_point Infra 157 405 Mbit/s
44 ▂▄__ WPA2
B6:FB:E4:44:CA:82 -- Infra 11 195 Mbit/s
42 ▂▄__ WPA2
B4:FB:E4:44:CA:82 my_access_point Infra 11 195 Mbit/s
40 ▂▄__ 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
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1884008
Title:
network manager prefers further away AP when there are multiple APs
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
New
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:
76:83:C2:BB:34:2A -- Infra 36 405
Mbit/s 97 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
74:83:C2:BB:34:2A my_access_point Infra 36 405
Mbit/s 95 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
74:83:C2:BA:34:2A my_access_point Infra 1 195
Mbit/s 94 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
76:83:C2:BA:34:2A -- Infra 1 195
Mbit/s 94 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
B6:FB:E4:45:CA:82 -- Infra 157 405
Mbit/s 44 ▂▄__ WPA2
* B4:FB:E4:45:CA:82 my_access_point Infra 157 405
Mbit/s 44 ▂▄__ WPA2
B6:FB:E4:44:CA:82 -- Infra 11 195
Mbit/s 42 ▂▄__ WPA2
B4:FB:E4:44:CA:82 my_access_point Infra 11 195
Mbit/s 40 ▂▄__ 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
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