As advised by the documentation, I have inserted first the CD into the optical drive; the CD autorun prompted me to run the application:



Right away, the autorun menu pops up; from here, we can execute the setup procedure, get the support software, view the documentation, ask for support or register the product:



When Setup is executed, we are welcomed with the following screen:



Unfortunately, the utility is not supported by Windows 7 x64 OS on which I do the tests on, so my only option was to press exit and go configure the router the manual way:



Before navigating to the firmware interface, I have decided to go to the NETGEAR website and download the latest firmware version for it:



To access the router configuration page, we can enter any of these addresses:

http://www.routerlogin.net
http://www.routerlogin.com
http://192.168.1.1

A window that asks for authentication will pop up and we can enter the default user/password combination:



If the authentication is done successfully, we will be able to see the router interface; on the top part we can see the NETGEAR logo, the name of the router, but also a language selection drop-down list; to the left, we can see a big list of options (each option will open up in the center of the screen); to the right, we can see help for each and every menu we will open from the left:



The Add WPS Client menu helps us use the WPS feature, if the device we want to connect to the router also supports this feature:



In the Basic Settings menu, we can configure manually the WAN connection; on most ISPs these are made automatically:



In the Wireless Settings menu, we can configure the radio speeds, the channel, the SSID, but also the encryption type and its passphrase (if applicable):




In the Guest Network Settings menu, we can set a “Guest” network profile, with or without encryption; these can be set to give or not access to the LAN, basically helpful when we also want to use the router as a hotspot: