What pre-design activity should a municipal WLAN team run to discover incumbents before finalizing a channel plan?
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Short Explanation
Before you paint channels on a map, walk the RF neighborhood—spectrum and Wi-Fi scans show who already lives there. Traceroutes and furniture brochures don’t reveal microwave ovens or rogue APs. Shutting off a neighbor without data is politics, not design.
Full Explanation
Pre-design environment scans (spectrum analysis plus Wi-Fi discovery) identify incumbent WLANs and non-Wi-Fi interferers that constrain channel and power plans. Wired path checks and furniture reviews do not replace RF baselines. Unilateral shutdown of external APs is not a substitute for measured planning.