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** Changed in: network-manager
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: network-manager
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Title:
  users should define wifi net preference, defaulting to heuristics

Status in NetworkManager:
  Confirmed
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I'm at a hotel.  There's a strong network AP in this room that my org
  owns, and a weaker hotel wifi AP elsewhere.

  Before my org convened, I connected to the hotel wifi, so it's in the
  list of SSIDs that I automatically connect to.  I would rather connect
  to my org's wifi in almost all cases. But, that doesn't happen, and it
  connects to the unwanted hotel Wifi AP.  I should be able to order the
  SSIDs that I will automatically connect to my dragging them in the
  list and a lower network should never be used if a higher is
  available.

  So, in picking a network to connect to, we should try each in order of
  user-defined preference and abandon any that are below some threshold
  of usefulness.

  Additionally, if nothing more-preferred is available, pick among
  crypto'd networks, abandoning too weak.

  Then pick according to strength if everything else is equal.

  I describe best in code...

  order_of_preference = sorted(((net.user_defined_order if net.strength
  > epsilon else INFINITY), (0 if net.has_crypto else 1), net.strength,
  net) for net in network_list)

  net_to_use = order_of_preference[0][3]

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#previous-networks>: "When
  reprioritization of networks has been implemented in NetworkManager,
  pressing on a network should make it draggable so that you can reorder
  the list (bug 1538972)."

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu22
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-9.16-generic 3.11.2
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-9-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Oct 29 13:29:36 2013
  IpRoute:
   default via 10.155.32.1 dev wlan0  proto static
   10.155.32.0/19 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.155.51.98  metric 9
  MarkForUpload: True
  NetworkManager.state:
   [main]
   NetworkingEnabled=true
   WirelessEnabled=true
   WWANEnabled=true
  SourcePackage: network-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2009-03-27 (1677 days ago)
  WpaSupplicantLog:

  nmcli-dev:
   DEVICE     TYPE              STATE         DBUS-PATH
   wlan0      802-11-wireless   connected     /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
   eth0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable   /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
  nmcli-nm:
   RUNNING         VERSION    STATE           NET-ENABLED   WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN
   running         0.9.8.0    connected       enabled       enabled         enabled    enabled         disabled

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