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[Romano Giannetti <romano.giannetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Marius I have exactly the same problem with the University network and
the global EDUROAM network. And no, I can't change the name of any of
them; I just want NM to connect to my local University network whenever
available, even if last time I manually connected to the global EDUROAM
--- because I was in another university campus.

Let me explain exactly the problem:

- I have a wifi account on my university network, let call it UNIWIFI. When I am connected to this network I can print (and more, but use that as an example). 
- I have an account on EDUROAM, which is broadcast on hundreds of universities, included mine. When I am connected with EDUROAM, I cannot print. 

Now I move between my campus and other campuses. So the last connection
could well be EDUROAM, because I was, say, attending a meeting. Or
because I entered the elevator in my campus and the UNIWIFI was lost and
by chance exiting the elevator NM was trying to connect to EDUROAM, and
succeeded.

Summary: I would like to have a way to say that if UNIWIFI is available,
NM should switch to it even if the EDUROAM is available and was
automatically connected (with automatically I mean after  a  connection
loss or reboot or wake-up). I really think that just one bit of priority
is all that is needed. Now I have to check and sometime change manually
my connection every time I have to do a privileged (like printing)
operation...

BTW, this is not a criticism of NM in general. NM is a really
outstanding tool and works perfectly, out of the box, with no help from
the user 98% of the time --- which is almost magical. Simply there are
cases where the heuristic of connection does not work; it would be
really nice if the UNIWIFI AP could send a "this network supersedes
EDUROAM" info in the broadcast, but...

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

Title:
  Please provide a mechanism whereby Wi-Fi networks can be prioritized

Status in NetworkManager:
  In Progress
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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