On municipal permit day, a service lobby shows acceptable RSSI but clients experience high retries and airtime contention under crowd load. Validation points to oversized cells. What remediation should the design team recommend?
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Short Explanation
Green RSSI with angry airtime means the cells are too fat for permit-day crowds. Add APs, shrink cells, and give clients room to talk—coverage alone was never the metric.
Full Explanation
Capacity failures under load with adequate RSSI indicate co-channel contention and oversized cells rather than a simple coverage gap. Remediation typically increases AP density and reduces cell size or adjusts channel reuse so airtime is available per client. Removing APs, ignoring band planning, or weakening acceptance metrics does not solve measured contention on high-demand civic days.