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Bug 638435 - How do I get it to pick one of two APs?
How do I get it to pick one of two APs?
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: Wi-Fi
0.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-31 23:28 UTC by thomas
Modified: 2016-03-11 17:42 UTC
See Also:
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Description thomas 2010-12-31 23:28:15 UTC
I have separate 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz APs, and I would like it to use the 5Ghz but failover to the 2.4.  I can't seem to find anything anywhere that says where or how I can set this, give APs a preference value or anything.
It always connects to the 2.4Ghz AP if both are available.  Both are close so give 100% bandwidth, but the 2.4 is more busy because everything that does not support 5Ghz ends up there.
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2011-04-26 20:26:25 UTC
At the moment I don't think you can do fallback, but you can create two connections and "lock" each of those connections to the BSSID of each AP by using the "BSSID" box in nm-connection-editor.  That would ensure that when the connection was active, it was only using the given AP on that AP's band.  NM uses a "last connected to" preference scheme so whichever AP was last connected to, NM will try to reconnect to that one.
Comment 2 Pavel Simerda 2012-07-25 13:03:03 UTC
This is still valid and can be viewed as an enhancement request. Is a setup like this available in wpa_supplicant?
Comment 3 Lubomir Rintel 2016-03-11 16:45:10 UTC
Cleaning up the old bugs that didn't get addressed. Sorry you didn't hear from us.

This was probably fixed in bug #627571. Please feel free to reopen if the fix is not sufficient.