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Rationale
every time you try to connect to a new network, it is saved by default with the automatic connection option enabled in the network manager, whether you are able to connect to it or not. After restarting, if network manager finds any of the saved networks, it tries to connect to them automatically, all at same time, because by default "connect automatically" option is enabled for each network.
This is very annoying because it tries to connect to every found network even though you cancel the connection. To avoid this from happening, you have to disable this option for each networks in the properties or delete the network in the network manager.
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Shady3D
wrote on the 17 Aug 09 at 11:20
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just add a check box next to the network list
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kreep
wrote on the 17 Aug 09 at 12:54
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i don't really understand the problem. turning of automatical connecting to the network seems like a bad idea to me, so i vote -1.
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McIvor
wrote on the 17 Aug 09 at 16:08
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It may not be quite clear, but I believe what he's saying is that when you connect to a network for the first time, it is saved and set to automatically connect. If you leave the area, your computer will still try to automatically connect to that network, even if its not available.
I was just thinking about this while on vacation last month. I had three networks on autoconnect, including my home network, three states away.
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What's the problem with this? If the network is not there, it will not try to connect to it. A better solution is to enable BSSID filtering so that you don't get name collisions. But your home network should have a reasonably unique name anyways.
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lemmyg
wrote on the 17 Aug 09 at 18:45
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I think I am not explained properly.
I've corrected the description.
Sorry.
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lemmyg
wrote on the 17 Aug 09 at 19:49
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I think solution 2 is not about with the problem, because, I not explained correctly the fist time.
Sorry.
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dino
wrote on the 19 Aug 09 at 06:15
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"If you leave the area, your computer will still try to automatically connect to that network, even if its not available. "
Sounds like a bug to me and does not happen to me as well.
#1 ". Later, after restarting, the network manager trying to connect them automatically, all at once, because the default option is enabled."
all at once? How does that work?
#2 would break network-manager for me. At the university we got over 500 access points. (And it would break every network with more than one AP)
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lemmyg
wrote on the 19 Aug 09 at 09:55
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If you have 10 access point saved in network manager, those are saved with the connect automaticaly option enabled.
what happends? The next time, when you are not connected to any, after reboot, network manager will try to connect to all, at the same time. when this happend, it gets you crazy.
it will be better if network manager save not this option enabled by default and if you want to connect automaticaly to one, you can enable the option manualy in each network.
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lemmyg
wrote on the 19 Aug 09 at 10:00
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I am still thinking that solution 2 is not about with the problem I am exposed.
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I can't vote negative 100,000, so I voted negative 1...
Having the ability to automatically connect to an available network (wireless or otherwise) is an important feature in any OS, and removing this option by default would be a huge regression.
If Network Manager is trying to connect to networks that don't exist, that's a bug that should be fixed. But we shouldn't turn off the feature entirely.
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lemmyg
wrote on the 20 Aug 09 at 15:02
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I not propose remove the automatic connection feature.
I propose changing the default value of connect automaticqaly option in the preset of each network in network manager. It is a simple solution.
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lemmyg
wrote on the 20 Aug 09 at 16:11
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if you want connect automatically, the correct way would be changing value of the preset manually.
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But users aren't going to know (nor should they have to) that they have to enable an option to automatically connect. 99% of users want to autoconnect, so it should be the default. The few that don't want this feature can manually turn it off.
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