A county warehouse SSID works for modern tablets but legacy handheld scanners never finish joining. Beacons show the lowest basic rate set to 24 Mbps. What should the CWNE conclude from that Beacon rates analysis?
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Short Explanation
Basic rates are the club's mandatory dress code in the Beacon. Jack them too high and the old scanners can't meet the door policy even when the fancy tablets stroll right in. Tune that floor for the clients you still have to support.
Full Explanation
The BSS basic rate set advertised in Beacons defines rates every STA must support to join and to decode mandatory management/control traffic. Setting the minimum basic rate too high shrinks the effective join/coverage boundary and can prevent low-rate clients from associating while higher-capability devices thrive. Protocol analysis of Beacon supported/basic rates is the correct first check when mixed client populations show selective join failures.