A mobile permitting tablet roams a city warehouse aisle where one AP offers 80 MHz on 5 GHz and the next hop AP is 20 MHz-only on a different band plan. Sessions drop at the boundary. What incompatibility is likely?
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Short Explanation
If hop A speaks wide 5 GHz channels and hop B doesn’t, the tablet can stumble at the seam. Capability mismatch along the roam path is a real mobility fault. Keep the path consistent with the design the client can actually use.
Full Explanation
Successful roaming expects compatible PHY/capability offerings along the path. Large differences in channel width or band support between neighboring APs can disrupt clients that cannot maintain session quality across those changes. Technicians identify feature/capability incompatibility on the roam path rather than assuming uniform AP settings, tying drops to passphrase length, or blaming wired-only behavior.