Andy, I need some clarification: is the software brilliant, or is designed for people who are brilliant?

Holy cow! The software on this thing drove been freaking NUTS! I was only trying to do some very simple stuff, and I was losing my mind with how overly complicated they've made the interface and the setup in general!

So here's the deal. I was setting this router up at a place that could only get DSL. They use PPPoE with a username and password and that's it. Pretty standard stuff, right? WRONG! I had no freaking clue how to set this up in the Routerboard UI.

I was finally able to set up - in the PPP section - a "PPPoE client," and when I was finished I could see that this "client" (whatever that means in this UI), was actually able to get an IP from the ISP, so it was connected. But nothing worked!

Then there's all this business about master and slave interfaces? Putting aside the issue that I thought the computer industry had moved past this terminology, there was absolutely no explaining what this meant or how to alter these settings.

The experience was miserable, and I ended up having to swap it out for the only router I had in my car, a crappy Linksys E1200. I threw a compact version of DD-WRT on it and disabled the WiFi, but it was very disappointing to not be able to use the Routerboard router. The UI has a steep learning curve, to put it gently, and the documentation is almost nonexistent for the web interface.