A municipal permitting office captures an Association Response reje…

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A municipal permitting office captures an Association Response rejecting a tablet that requested 80 MHz while the city AP advertises only 40 MHz HT capabilities. What does that Association Response status most clearly indicate?

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A capability or parameter mismatch between the client's requested features and the BSS (for example channel width or security) caused the AP to refuse association — Think of association like a club membership form—if the tablet asks for an 80 MHz lounge the AP doesn't offer, the door stays shut. That reject status is the AP saying "your capabilities don't match this BSS," not DHCP or RADIUS yet. Fix the width/security mismatch first.

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The client's DHCP lease expired mid-handshake, so Layer-3 addressing failed before association could complete

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The RADIUS server revoked the user certificate during the 4-way handshake after association succeeded

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Beacon interval drift alone forces Association Responses to reject every HT/VHT client on the channel

A municipal permitting office captures an Association Response rejecting a tablet that requested 80 MHz while the city AP advertises only 40 MHz HT capabilities. What does that Association Response status most clearly indicate?

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