A company installed WAPs and deployed new laptops and docking stations to all employees. The docking stations are connected via LAN cables. Users are now reporting degraded network service. The IT dep

Replacing non-mobile users' laptops with wired desktop systems would offload some traffic from the wireless network, but it's a costly and disruptive hardware change for an entire company, and not the most efficient way to improve the existing wireless network's capacity for its intended users.

Increasing the wireless network adapter metric changes the priority of the wireless connection relative to other network interfaces on a single client device and does not improve the overall capacity or performance of the wireless access points or the mesh network itself.

Adding wireless repeaters extends Wi-Fi range but does not increase the overall bandwidth or capacity of the network; repeaters often halve the available bandwidth, potentially worsening the high-traffic issue rather than resolving it.

Upgrading the mesh network to support a more modern Wi-Fi specification, such as 802.11n, significantly increases the maximum theoretical throughput and efficiency of the wireless network. This allows the WAPs to handle a higher volume of traffic and more concurrent users more effectively, directly addressing the degraded service due to high traffic.