Bought a small $49 Mikrotik wireless access point [1] recently on the recommendation of a HN user. It&#x27;s absolutely fantastic.<p>For those who don&#x27;t know them, Mikrotik is a Latvian company that builds boards, and pro&#x2F;prosumer products based them, using their own RouterOS, which is built on the Linux kernel. In addition to a terminal interface (with nice modern commands, ANSI colors and SSH), you get a rather bare-bones but really beautifully designed and consistent web GUI called Webfig.<p>Webfig would be terrible for most end users, but it&#x27;s a godsend for techies, especially compared to the slow, antique GUIs that come with other routers such as Asus and Netgear. For example, everything in the GUI shows live metrics. If you add a NAT rule for port forwarding, you&#x27;ll see bandwidth usage updated live via AJAX for each rule. Lots of little things like this make it really nice to use.<p>They have a live demo [1] for those curious about how it works.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;routerboard.com&#x2F;RB952Ui-5ac2nD" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;routerboard.com&#x2F;RB952Ui-5ac2nD</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo2.mt.lv&#x2F;webfig&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo2.mt.lv&#x2F;webfig&#x2F;</a>