Comment 29 for bug 366780

@Marius I have exactly the same problem with the University network and the global EDUROAM network. And no, I can't change the name of any of them; I just want NM to connect to my local University network whenever available, even if last time I manually connected to the global EDUROAM --- because I was in another university campus.

Let me explain exactly the problem:

- I have a wifi account on my university network, let call it UNIWIFI. When I am connected to this network I can print (and more, but use that as an example).
- I have an account on EDUROAM, which is broadcast on hundreds of universities, included mine. When I am connected with EDUROAM, I cannot print.

Now I move between my campus and other campuses. So the last connection could well be EDUROAM, because I was, say, attending a meeting. Or because I entered the elevator in my campus and the UNIWIFI was lost and by chance exiting the elevator NM was trying to connect to EDUROAM, and succeeded.

Summary: I would like to have a way to say that if UNIWIFI is available, NM should switch to it even if the EDUROAM is available and was automatically connected (with automatically I mean after a connection loss or reboot or wake-up). I really think that just one bit of priority is all that is needed. Now I have to check and sometime change manually my connection every time I have to do a privileged (like printing) operation...

BTW, this is not a criticism of NM in general. NM is a really outstanding tool and works perfectly, out of the box, with no help from the user 98% of the time --- which is almost magical. Simply there are cases where the heuristic of connection does not work; it would be really nice if the UNIWIFI AP could send a "this network supersedes EDUROAM" info in the broadcast, but...