A parks-department outdoor AP was set to a channel that is not allowed for outdoor use in that regulatory domain. Handheld scanners near the pavilion never see the expected BSS, though indoor APs on approved channels work. What should the tech suspect?
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Short Explanation
Wrong channel outdoors is like putting the radio station on a frequency nobody's allowed to tune. Clients keep listening where the design said the BSS would live and hear nothing. Fix the AP radio to the approved outdoor channel from the design.
Full Explanation
Applying an illegal or otherwise wrong outdoor channel prevents clients from discovering the BSS on the frequencies they are permitted and configured to use. Indoor APs on correct channels continuing to work points to a configuration/application error on that outdoor radio rather than a citywide outage. The technician corrects the AP channel and related radio settings to match the design and regulatory constraints. Unreachable BSS due to bad radio config is a Domain 5 connectivity configuration fault.