well, all i can say is that no OS in my house (and there are a few in use) shows me multiple entires for the multiple APs in range, i have exactly one entry for the whole of the network in all of them.
*NONE* of the other OSes drops off the network if i go up and down the stairs where the tripping point for switching to another AP is ... if i go from my living room downstairs to my office upstairs, and have my ubuntu phone in my pocket it disconnects on the stairs ... if i open any network management app in any other OS (and even in ubuntu desktop) i see a single entry for my wlan in all of them ... on the phone i see one entry per AP ... all i'm asking for is that the phone behaves like any other OS (and yes i have an old android phone and checked it, there is exactly one entry for my WLAN in it) lets please not break behavior, thats all i'm asking for adding extra annoyances for the user (like disconnecting instead of switching APs, showing multiple entries with identical names you cant tell apart in the network list etc) *just because* isnt really nice IMHO. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-network in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1395088 Title: APs with same SSID and support for the same encryption should be merged into one on the network list Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: as you can see in the "iwlist scan" output below i have two APs in my house, one supporting WPA2 only, the other supporting WPA (enabled for some weird old wifi HW) and WPA2 ... while nm-applet merges these two into one entry in the network list on various ubuntu desktop devices here, the phone shows one entry per AP. this behavior should be brought in sync (preferably by making indicator-network also only show one entry in this case) wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:69:B9:C2:E0 ESSID:"grawert.net" Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Mode:Managed Signal level=-76 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:54 Mb/s Extra:Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54 IE: Unknown: DD770050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010002369B9C2DE002369B9C2DE02313535102100104C696E6B73797320627920436973636F102300085752543136304E4C1024000876312E30302E30311042000231351054000800060050F2040001101100085752543136304E4C100800020084 IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Cell 02 - Address: C0:3F:0E:CA:36:26 ESSID:"grawert.net" Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Mode:Managed Signal level=-46 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:54 Mb/s Extra:Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54 IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: Unknown: DD0E0050F204104A0001101044000102 IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-network/+bug/1395088/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp