A fire-station WLAN shows high 2.4 GHz duty cycle with only a handf…

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A fire-station WLAN shows high 2.4 GHz duty cycle with only a handful of associated clients. What does that spectrum utilization primarily indicate?

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A large fraction of airtime is occupied by RF energy on that channel, which may include Wi-Fi or non-Wi-Fi sources, independent of association count. — Duty cycle is like a busy highway meter — it counts how full the lane is, not how many cars are parked in your driveway. Few associations with a packed airtime chart means something else is filling the channel. Don't blame RADIUS or the switch fabric for an RF occupancy number.

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Client association count alone defines channel utilization, so the duty-cycle reading must be a false positive.

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High duty cycle always means the RADIUS server is overloaded and EAP is looping.

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Duty cycle only measures Ethernet switch fabric congestion, not RF airtime.

A fire-station WLAN shows high 2.4 GHz duty cycle with only a handful of associated clients. What does that spectrum utilization primarily indicate?

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