Question 1
At an industrial warehouse, a specialist is investigating the following condition during a migration rehearsal: A warehouse survey labels a legacy 802.11g-only scanner as an 802.11ax client and expects 6 GHz connectivity. What should the team do FIRST to resolve this issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Determine the scanner's supported 802.11 PHY and bands and design a compatible, segmented 2.4 GHz WLAN. It addresses the specific failure, a warehouse survey labels a legacy 802.11g-only scanner as an 802.11ax client and expects 6 GHz connectivity, by correcting the mechanism: the scanner's legacy radio cannot operate on a band or PHY it does not implement. The expected verification is: the scanner associates using its supported PHY on the intended 2.4 GHz service without claiming 6 GHz support.
Incorrect Answers
Review legacy-rate requirements and responsibly remove unneeded slow basic data rates after coverage testing. This change is suitable for another situation: a retail WLAN design uses one shared 802.11b basic-rate setting everywhere and then reports excessive airtime usage by low-rate devices. It does not directly address this case, where a warehouse survey labels a legacy 802.11g-only scanner as an 802.11ax client and expects 6 GHz connectivity.
Recalculate antenna gain, cable loss, and EIRP and configure compliant transmit settings. This change is suitable for another situation: a facility installs high-gain antennas without reducing transmitter power and exceeds its permitted radiated-power design. It does not directly address this case, where a warehouse survey labels a legacy 802.11g-only scanner as an 802.11ax client and expects 6 GHz connectivity.
Account for protocol overhead, acknowledgments, contention, retries, and application bottlenecks in achievable goodput estimates. This change is suitable for another situation: a campus troubleshooting report treats the network's advertised maximum physical link rate as its expected TCP payload rate. It does not directly address this case, where a warehouse survey labels a legacy 802.11g-only scanner as an 802.11ax client and expects 6 GHz connectivity.