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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alleging "you want to break roaming behavior" is unlikely to help solve
whatever the problem is. Unfortunately -- as often happens when the word
"should" appears in a bug summary -- the exact problem was left
unstated. Is it:

(A) That "APs with same SSID and support for the same encryption" are
not treated by Network Manager as a single network with a shared
password etc? If so, the information here doesn't substantiate the bug:
your two APs have the same name but support *different* encryption
options, unlike (for example) the set of identical APs you would find at
a hotel or conference center. And even if the bug is valid, merely
merging the entries in indicator-network probably would not solve the
problem; it would need fixing in Network Manager.

(B) Merely that the list in indicator-network is not "in sync" with the
list in nm-applet, and the inconsistency is irritating? That would be
more likely to be solved by finally shipping indicator-network on PCs
than by changing indicator-network to match nm-applet. For example,
maybe the evil-twin attack is intractable, but if it is tractable,
defending against it will almost certainly mean listing networks even
more differently from how they're listed in nm-applet.

(C) "Roaming behavior", that having set Network Manager to connect to
both APs automatically, it fails to connect to one after going out of
range of the other? If so, that again is a Network Manager bug which
probably would not be fixed by UI changes in indicator-network. Maybe
the bug would happen even if the APs had different names; have you tried
that?

(D) That on your way to the basement or the second floor, you are "not
knowing which one is the basement or the second floor AP" and so can't
choose which one to connect to? That seems least likely to me, because
merging the entries into one would prevent you from choosing one over
the other at all.

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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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