Hi, I encountered the following problem with NM recently. I have a _very_ weak signal in my hotel room. It'll hover at 15% for a while (and I can access the Internet then), then drop to 0% for 10--20 seconds (no Internet), then come back again for a few minutes and so on. With NM: - Within a few seconds of the signal dropping to 0%, NM ifdown's the interface and starts rescanning. It finds the network again in 10--20s and tries to reaquire a lease. But at 15% SNR, it means some DHCP packets get lost ... so the 10--20s WiFi outage turns into a 2min NM outage with me clicking force it to retry after 2-3 DHCP failures etc. Without NM -- i.e. w/ iwconfig+ifconfig+route: I set up the device, interface routes etc. by hand. When SNR drops to 0% for 10--20s, I have full packet-loss. 20s later, everything is back working. There is no inflation of the network level outage to app level. Easy Fix: A "pin" button for networks. Kind of like that thumbtack pin icon in Tomboy Notes Panel app. Once NM acquires a network, "pin" it, and NM won't ifdown it even if SNR drops to 0%. Unpin it, and NM operates like normal. Thoughts? -- Saikat
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