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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

well, all i can say is that no OS in my house (and there are a few in
use) shows me multiple entires for the multiple APs in range, i have
exactly one entry for the whole of the network in all of them.

*NONE* of the other OSes drops off the network if i go up and down the
stairs where the tripping point for switching to another AP is ...

if i go from my living room downstairs to my office upstairs, and have
my ubuntu phone in my pocket it disconnects on the stairs ...

if i open any network management app in any other OS (and even in ubuntu
desktop) i see a single entry for my wlan in all of them ... on the
phone i see one entry per AP ... all i'm asking for is that the phone
behaves like any other OS (and yes i have an old android phone and
checked it, there is exactly one entry for my WLAN in it)

lets please not break behavior, thats all i'm asking for
adding extra annoyances for the user (like disconnecting instead of switching APs, showing multiple entries with identical names you cant tell apart in the network list etc) *just because* isnt really nice IMHO.

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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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