*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 996939 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996939
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 996939
NetworkManager after resume from suspend should activate the most recently
used (rather than some other "automatically connect") connection
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672541
Title:
Dropped connection will reconnect to next known network, even if
original network is available (lack of WLAN preference order feature)
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: network-manager
One way to reproduce the frustrating discomfort caused by the lack of
a "preferred network order" feature:
Pre-requisite: be connected to your usual wifi network with at least
one other wireless network you connected to in the past (logged in NM
history) and available at that time (=available known alternative
network).
Example modification triggering a short network drop: setting wifi network
available to all users drops the connection and won't reconnect to the original
network although it has always been available in the process.
1. Open NM (right click on the network notification applet, modify
connections)
2. Select the wifi network you are connected to, modify
3. Check the bottom box "Available to all users"
The current connection you just modified drops and NM reconnects to
the **next available known network**, not the original one.
If there's no other known network available though, NM properly
reconnects to your wifi network (reproduce this by cleaning up the
other available wifi networks in the history).
This is more generally an issue of setting a preferred network/preference
order in NM (wishlist?).
Currently there's no preference order other than most recent connection.
Tougher to implement: NM notifies users when recently disconnected preferred
network is back and they would like to switch back to it.
This would be especially useful when you use a fallback (limited) network and
would want to reconnect to you primary network asap (more or less temporary ISP
failure).
I would set the importance higher than a wishlist issue considering the
professional and intensive use of a connection.
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