On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 13:57 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Home network has two wi-fi sources (Starlink and Netgear, fwiw). > Occasionally NetworkManager switches betwee primary (Starlink) and > secondary (Netgear) . I'm assuming that NetworkManager is trying to > connect to the strongest signal. Is there any way to tell > NetworkManager not to switch networks? My experience is that once connected, it stays connected unless signal is lost. It doesn't decide to find a better access point while you're connected to an access point. If you're getting drop-outs, you may want to see if you can shift the position of your access points. If you want it to always try a particular network first, go into your Network Manager settings, and set a higher "connection priority" for your preferred network. This, of course, presumes that you have two configurations, one for each access point. If you have just one network configuration, and you've got both your access points using the same ID names, same channels, etc., hoping that strongest wins, then you really are going to have to play with the positioning of your access point and where you are while trying to use it. However, there's more to it than that. The SSID you set as your WiFi network name in your WiFi router is just one of its names. There's another one, that you don't get to twiddle with, that lets your computers actually tell them apart. What typically happens with people trying to get their device to automatically shift to the nearest/best access point without doing anything, while they roam around, is the device steadfastly tries to stay connected to the one they initially connected to, even when the network becomes a notwork, and they have to manually disconnect and reconnect. If you want a WiFi mesh, you nearly always have to buy the mesh devices that are designed to work that way. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.81.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 16 17:29:43 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
