[Bug 366780] Re: Please provide a mechanism whereby Wi-Fi networks can be prioritized

[Romano Giannetti]

@Marius I have exactly the same problem with the University network and
the global EDUROAM network. And no, I can't change the name of any of
them; I just want NM to connect to my local University network whenever
available, even if last time I manually connected to the global EDUROAM
--- because I was in another university campus.

Let me explain exactly the problem:

- I have a wifi account on my university network, let call it UNIWIFI. When I am connected to this network I can print (and more, but use that as an example). 
- I have an account on EDUROAM, which is broadcast on hundreds of universities, included mine. When I am connected with EDUROAM, I cannot print. 

Now I move between my campus and other campuses. So the last connection
could well be EDUROAM, because I was, say, attending a meeting. Or
because I entered the elevator in my campus and the UNIWIFI was lost and
by chance exiting the elevator NM was trying to connect to EDUROAM, and
succeeded.

Summary: I would like to have a way to say that if UNIWIFI is available,
NM should switch to it even if the EDUROAM is available and was
automatically connected (with automatically I mean after  a  connection
loss or reboot or wake-up). I really think that just one bit of priority
is all that is needed. Now I have to check and sometime change manually
my connection every time I have to do a privileged (like printing)
operation...

BTW, this is not a criticism of NM in general. NM is a really
outstanding tool and works perfectly, out of the box, with no help from
the user 98% of the time --- which is almost magical. Simply there are
cases where the heuristic of connection does not work; it would be
really nice if the UNIWIFI AP could send a "this network supersedes
EDUROAM" info in the broadcast, but...

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