This is a very good router and the web-based Genie software in the router is top notch. It's got everything you would ever need to control in it.
But the Nighthawk software interface is, well, on the weak side of marginal. It attempts to dumb-down control of the router, and boy did they succeed. It's so dumbed-down that it's practically useless.
My advice: buy the router. Use the built-in Genie software to control it.. And don't even bother to install the Nighthawk software.