An outdoor civic patio SSID shows rising retries each summer as trees leaf out between APs and seating. What should the WLAN team do?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Leaves are wet blankets for RF. When summer foliage spikes retries on the patio, go re-survey and retune—seasons change the path.
Full Explanation
Vegetation introduces seasonal attenuation and multipath changes that invalidate winter or leafless baselines. Expert operations remeasure and adjust channel, power, or placement when foliage increases retries. Ignoring the environment, disabling service, or swapping to Bluetooth as a blanket fix are not sound WLAN optimization.