Can the wifi portion of network manager be instructed to ignore particular SSID strings, in particular, "xfinity"?
Here in Portland Oregon, many businesses, nonprofits, and individuals offer open wifi free to the public. My own access point broadcasts "www.personaltelco.net" like dozens of others in the Portland area, but there are thousands of open WAPs, with thousands of different SSIDs. Internet provider Comcast gives wireless access points to their customers configured with the SSID "xfinity", which allows comcast customers to use each other's wifi, but this "service" is not available to the general public, nor would privacy-savvy users want to be tracked by Comcast if it was. Indeed, offering open wifi service to the general public violates Comcast's service contract. However, if xfinity is the strongest non-WEP/WPA beacon in a previously-unvisited location, that is the SSID network manager wifi attaches to first. After all, it tried and succeeded before, with a different xfinity beacon. Much fumbling and gnashing of teeth to find a different open network, while network manager repeatedly interrupts the manual search and connects to xfinity again, like a yellowjacket wasp to a picnic. So, is there an easy way to create a list of SSIDs that network manager should always ignore? I haven't found another internet provider that I dislike as much as Comcast, but it is prudent to allow for more than one. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
