Greetings

Ubuntu 13.04, Wireless works just fine, save for one minor thing - It
repeatedly selects the least desirable access point initially.

I have two main Wifi access points - let's call them A and B.

A is about 5 feet from my system. B is well across the house - about 40
feet away and decidedly lower in power. B is an range-extension of A - it's
SSID is really seen as "A12345" where "12345" is the sub-identifier for the
unit (i's a little EDIMAX WiFi Range Extender that really works quite
nicely and was really inexpensive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315112)

So - the issue is, when I start my system sitting right next to A, the
system ALWAYS selects B as it's link. It works, but is considerably weaker,
so I would prefer to usually choose A.

I presume there is a list somewhere of my possible links, but I haven't
found it yet.

Any thoughts? Or shall I just commit myself to always manually swapping to
the closer network when I start up?

I have considered deleting my closer network, and then, re-adding it
assuming that will make it the "most recently preferred" network. Is that
the way to go?

Thanks for your thoughts.

JackC

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