Thank you for your bug report, could you report this upstream on
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/ ?

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  network manager prefers further away AP when there are multiple APs

Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm on Ubuntu 20.04. My Wifi set-up has multiple access points
  throughout my home, and they all have the same SSID. It doesn't matter
  where I am in my home though, network manager always connects to one
  particular AP. If I list all the access points with `nmcli dev wifi
  list` I can see that it even picks that one access point if it is the
  farthest away one:

          76:83:C2:BB:34:2A  --                          Infra  36    405 
Mbit/s  97      ▂▄▆█  WPA2      
          74:83:C2:BB:34:2A  my_access_point             Infra  36    405 
Mbit/s  95      ▂▄▆█  WPA2      
          74:83:C2:BA:34:2A  my_access_point             Infra  1     195 
Mbit/s  94      ▂▄▆█  WPA2      
          76:83:C2:BA:34:2A  --                          Infra  1     195 
Mbit/s  94      ▂▄▆█  WPA2      
          B6:FB:E4:45:CA:82  --                          Infra  157   405 
Mbit/s  44      ▂▄__  WPA2      
  *       B4:FB:E4:45:CA:82  my_access_point             Infra  157   405 
Mbit/s  44      ▂▄__  WPA2      
          B6:FB:E4:44:CA:82  --                          Infra  11    195 
Mbit/s  42      ▂▄__  WPA2      
          B4:FB:E4:44:CA:82  my_access_point             Infra  11    195 
Mbit/s  40      ▂▄__  WPA2      

  It is true that if I change the BSSID field in the wifi settings I can
  get it to connect to a particular one, but that is not sufficient. I
  have a laptop, and if I move around my home I need it to connect to
  the closest one, and switching manually to whichever one is closest is
  not practical.

  I can't even create multiple entries for each BSSID in the list of
  networks, if I try many different networks appear with the same name
  and random numbers and I can't even label them.

  This is network manager version 1.22.10-1ubuntu2.1

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