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What is wrong is that it is only possible to set whether nm should
automatically connect to a network or not. It would be much preferable
if we could also tell it a preference relationship between these network
that we automatically connect to.

This would mean we could order the list of networks ourselves, and not
letting it be ordered by recency.

This is valuable because networks have different speed, security,
reliability, level of service.

For example, at my university exist several wifi networks : a closed one
and a "free access" one. I prefer accessing to the closed one whenever
it is available, but when the closed one is not available (as is on some
parts of the campus), I would still like to connect automatically to the
free access one.

With the current behaviour, if I go to a part of the campus where only
the free access network is available, this one will become the most
recently used. As a result, if I later find myself powering up my laptop
in a part where both networks are available, nm will connect to the free
access network, which is not what I want.

The requested behaviour seems easier to implement than the existing one,
because there is no need to track the recency of the usage of the
networks. The GUI would have to be a little modified, for example to
show a list of networks that we do not automatically connect to, and a
list of networks that we do automatically connect to, the latter having
"Move up" and "Move down" buttons.

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366780

Title:
  wifi network priority

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: network-manager

  I've got few wifi network profiles. NM connects to 1st available
  network in alphabetical order. But at my home NM connects to slow and
  unstable free network and I want to connect to my own wifi router. I
  suggest to add some priorities to different networks to set the order
  which network to connect to.

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