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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

so you want to break roaming behavior that works since more than a
decade this way on all OSes ?

WLANs with the same name and same encryption but multiple APs are a
pretty standard thing, no OS i know distinguishes between the physical
APs in such a setup (and Ubuntu desktop doesn't either today (and never
did))

I would find it personally very annoying if i suddenly had multiple
entries for my existing wlan show up on my laptop (not knowing which one
is the basement or the second floor AP) and would suddenly have to
manually pick the right AP while going up and down the stairs ...

i dont get why we need to break established and "quasi stanrdard"
behavior all of a sudden ...

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1395088

Title:
  APs with same SSID and support for the same encryption should be
  merged into one on the network list

Status in indicator-network package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  as you can see in the "iwlist scan" output below i have two APs in my house, one supporting WPA2 only, the other supporting WPA (enabled for some weird old wifi HW) and WPA2 ... while nm-applet merges these two into one entry in the network list on various ubuntu desktop devices here, the phone shows one entry per AP. 
  this behavior should be brought in sync (preferably by making indicator-network also only show one entry in this case)

  wlan0     Scan completed :
            Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:69:B9:C2:E0
                      ESSID:"grawert.net"
                      Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                      Mode:Managed
                      Signal level=-76 dBm  
                      Encryption key:on
                      Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                      Extra:Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
                      IE: Unknown: DD770050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010002369B9C2DE002369B9C2DE02313535102100104C696E6B73797320627920436973636F102300085752543136304E4C1024000876312E30302E30311042000231351054000800060050F2040001101100085752543136304E4C100800020084
                      IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                          Group Cipher : CCMP
                          Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                          Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
            Cell 02 - Address: C0:3F:0E:CA:36:26
                      ESSID:"grawert.net"
                      Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                      Mode:Managed
                      Signal level=-46 dBm  
                      Encryption key:on
                      Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                      Extra:Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
                      IE: WPA Version 1
                          Group Cipher : TKIP
                          Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
                          Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                      IE: Unknown: DD0E0050F204104A0001101044000102
                      IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                          Group Cipher : TKIP
                          Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
                          Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

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