Hi Edward,
On 09/13/2015 02:35 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> At the moment, I am thinking about how netman should behave when
> automatic searching and connecting to wifi hotspots is enabled. I
> already have an idea how this can be achieved, but I want to use
> the least of processing time possible, knowing from experience how
> network managers that think for themselves can be made to almost
> clog the system.
Things that come to my mind:
These are obvious, and i am sure you already do that anyway:
1. I never would want to be automatically connected to a WiFi
i have not manually connected to previously at least once.
2. I never would want to be disconnected from a WiFi just
because a different WiFi network becomes available.
3. Manual connections should be preferred over automatic ones.
Maybe there is the possibility to have a treshhold of some sort,
to avoid rapidly connecting / disconnecting a WiFi network. The
WiFi could have a weak signal strength or some other reason that
makes it unreliable; the treshhold should go over logins / time,
meaning something like this (i picked the actual numbers out of
thin air):
more than 1 automatic login per minute on SSID X
over a period of 2 minutes
leads to:
disable automatic connection to X for 30 minutes
Users could then still connect manually.
Kind regards,
T.