Anyway whenever I switch it on my wifi goes to shit. Apparently it does some SSID scanning every 5 seconds and then keeps sending the scan result to the "mothership". So I switch it on once or twice a week for an hour or so to do its spying thing.
what would it say? how ridiculous.
I'll bet you can't insert USB flash drives either.
We keep the monitoring to as minimal as needed to meet that requirement.
If your workstation stops checking in, or tells us your workstation doesn't comply then we will ping you to fix it.
It's always polite: Your machine is reporting X please fix that.
E: I should point out that our monitoring doesn't involve wifi like the person you replied to.
The main issue I had was that most "consumer" access points don't support multiple SSIDs with separate VLANs. In the end, I went with a Netgear WAX something that can support 4 SSIDs, each with a dedicated VLAN (+ a separate management VLAN). But it's more expensive than "normal" APs with similar performance.