[Bug 609373] New: Network Manager Wireless order to chaged from alphabetic to strength
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373#c0 Summary: Network Manager Wireless order to chaged from alphabetic to strength Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Milestone 7 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: otuominen@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- With top list of wireless networks should be arranged with strength. More networks should be arranged with alphabetic and without top list. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373#c Li Bin <bili@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373#c2 Li Bin <bili@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from Li Bin <bili@novell.com> 2010-07-08 09:10:48 UTC --- Won't fixed. http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list@gnome.org/msg14228.html The maintainer talk about it. There was a bug open about this. There are two reasons why: 1) signal strength still isn't reliable enough to use, and the AP you want to connect to is *not* always the strongest, especially if you live in places like apartment complexes like some people do. Signal strength also isn't always reliable, it varies depending on whether somebody around has WiMAX turned on, or bluetooth turned on, or a microwave between you and the AP. 2) The menu is mostly useful for *first time* connections to an AP, and when you connect to an AP the first time, you almost always know the name. Otherwise there's nothing you can use to distinguish the AP you need to connect to from any other AP. Like in a coffee shop I often go to, the SSID and the password are clearly printed on a slip of paper near each table. But there are also 5 other APs around. So if you've connected to the AP before, NM should be automatically reconnecting to it. Or, in 0.8 your previously-used APs will be listed first in the menu anyway. If you've got a bunch of APs you no longer connect to, you can remove them with the connection editor too (right-click nm-applet, Edit connections...) Thanks for your report. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373#c3 Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins@wp.pl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bluedzins@wp.pl --- Comment #3 from Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins@wp.pl> 2010-07-09 13:35:57 UTC --- The logic presented above is killing me. I have two AP, work and home. When I am at home, I cannot connect to AP at work because it is several kms away, and vice-versa. One signal is 0%, the other is 100%. And you are telling me, that this is not reliable, because there is a slight chance I could connect from home to AP at work (remember several kms away), only if I would turn my microwave off? And it is better to rely on the fact I was previously connected to AP at work? Is this is a joke? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373#c2 Li Bin <bili@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from Li Bin <bili@novell.com> 2010-07-08 09:10:48 UTC --- Won't fixed. http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list@gnome.org/msg14228.html The maintainer talk about it. There was a bug open about this. There are two reasons why: 1) signal strength still isn't reliable enough to use, and the AP you want to connect to is *not* always the strongest, especially if you live in places like apartment complexes like some people do. Signal strength also isn't always reliable, it varies depending on whether somebody around has WiMAX turned on, or bluetooth turned on, or a microwave between you and the AP. 2) The menu is mostly useful for *first time* connections to an AP, and when you connect to an AP the first time, you almost always know the name. Otherwise there's nothing you can use to distinguish the AP you need to connect to from any other AP. Like in a coffee shop I often go to, the SSID and the password are clearly printed on a slip of paper near each table. But there are also 5 other APs around. So if you've connected to the AP before, NM should be automatically reconnecting to it. Or, in 0.8 your previously-used APs will be listed first in the menu anyway. If you've got a bunch of APs you no longer connect to, you can remove them with the connection editor too (right-click nm-applet, Edit connections...) Thanks for your report. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609373#c3 Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins@wp.pl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bluedzins@wp.pl --- Comment #3 from Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins@wp.pl> 2010-07-09 13:35:57 UTC --- The logic presented above is killing me. I have two AP, work and home. When I am at home, I cannot connect to AP at work because it is several kms away, and vice-versa. One signal is 0%, the other is 100%. And you are telling me, that this is not reliable, because there is a slight chance I could connect from home to AP at work (remember several kms away), only if I would turn my microwave off? And it is better to rely on the fact I was previously connected to AP at work? Is this is a joke? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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