Netgear wireless access point

There's a guy who's been helping me out quite a lot lately.  Whenever I need something from him, he gets it done really quickly, and I'm very thankful for that.  Last Friday he asked me for help to set up a wireless access point at his office's new location.  I told him that the following day I'd go to buy one and set it up on the same day.

Well, come Saturday and I went to some shopping center and found this really nice Netgear wireless access point.  It was much cheaper than I thought it would be, so I didn't bother walking all over the shopping mall comparing prices, plus I wanted to get done as early as possible.

So even before lunch time, I was already on my way to his office to set this thing up.  But when I plug it, arggg!!!  It refused to power on!!!  I couldn't believe it.  Right out of the box, and it already doesn't work!  WTF?  So I run again to the same store to let the guys check the damn thing for me, and fuck, the problem was the little plug adapter they'd given me.  Whatever came from Netgear itself was very fine.  The problem was that its power adapter's plug was for British sockets, and in this store they'd been kind enough to give me a plug adapter at no extra charge.  It was this freebie that was not good.

Back in the office, I start to install this thing, and find that Netgear has provided a "Setup Wizard".  How cool!  It promises to auto detect the ISP settings (save for the user id and password, of course), but when the moment of truth comes, it fails miserably.  What's worse, when I try to run it again, it remembers the previous run's settings, so I'm stuck.

At the end I have no choice but to push the Factory Reset button and manually configure this thing.  I think I wasted about 30 minutes with the damn wizard, and it didn't do the job.  On the other hand, when I did the set up by hand, everything was up and running in less than 5 minutes.

It's a really nice access point.  So nice that I'm tempted to tell my friend that instead of him giving me the money for the new wireless access point I brought for him, I can give him mine for free and I get to keep his new one.