On a municipal field visit, a newer phone with 802.11r support roams cleanly while an older laptop without fast transition stutters between the same APs. What does this illustrate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Same hallway, different NICs—phones with fast transition glide while legacy laptops hitch. Feature support variance is why mobility feels uneven. The SSID isn’t handing out different passwords by device type.
Full Explanation
Roaming quality depends on both network features and client capability. Devices with fast transition or other assists can roam more smoothly than devices lacking those features on the same SSID and AP set. Technicians explain uneven experience via feature incompatibility/variance rather than assuming identical behavior, per-device passphrases, or automatic inheritance of phone features by laptops.