GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 638435
How do I get it to pick one of two APs?
Last modified: 2016-03-11 17:42:28 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.
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.
This is still valid and can be viewed as an enhancement request. Is a setup like this available in wpa_supplicant?
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.