just yesterday i installed my new "cheapest wireless NAT router they carried at my local big-box electronics store" which happened to be a netgear of some variety.

there was basically nothing in the box as far as documentation, except a CD and a sticker over the ethernet ports on the router saying "please insert the CD before installing this device!"

strange but true, i lack an optical drive at the moment and even so it wouldn't speak the likely dialects of microsoft/mac-ese, so i resigned myself to intelligent guessing and reverse engineering before i saw the small print: "advanced users go to http://www.routerlogin.net and enter the login/password printed on your device"

i haven't investigated the mechanism behind it, but visiting that site with aforementioned printed auth info in my decidedly non-mainstream browser/OS combo worked like a champ and minutes later i'd locked down my wifi and tweaked my preferred settings.

so maybe we're not that far off...