@All:

do we actually want this behaviour? Is SSID the only ID we can use to
identify APs of the same "group"?

I was actually hoping we could *stop* connecting to other APs just
because they have the same SSID.

Plenty of routers come preconfigured with the same SSID, see "iPhone" or
"Ubuntu" when you create a hotspot on those devices, or "ASUS" if you
have an Asus router.

Fixing this "bug" means trying to autoconnect to random APs that you
find while walking around the streets.

And when you couple that with bug #615239 you get the followign result:
your phone will stop trying to autoconnect to your real home AP when you
get back home because it is stuck on the password prompt that it
triggered while trying to autoconnect to a random AP you found on your
way home, just because it had the same SSID.

Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-
manager/+bug/615239/comments/18

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