Re: which AccessPoint to activate?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:19 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on some improvements to Sugar's network view...
> We are now using logic similar to that found in nm-applet in order to
> group access points into networks, and then we only show 1 entry per
> network.
> 
> I'm looking at org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.ActivateConnection():
> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec.html#org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
> 
> That function takes an AccessPoint as the final parameter
> (specific_object).
> 
> For networks with more than 1 AP, does it matter which AccessPoint is
> passed as that final parameter? Should we pick the one with the highest
> signal strength or something like that?

It doesn't really matter; in fact if you leave it empty ("/") NM will
pick one for you from the wifi device's scan list.

Dan