NETGEAR To Provide AOL Broadband Compatible Home Networking Solutions

Internet sharing made even easier for NETGEAR and AOL customers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — October 15, 2002 — NETGEAR, Inc., a worldwide provider of easy-to-use, high performance networking products at prices affordable to homes and growing businesses, today announced an agreement with America Online, Inc. to provide compatibility between the AOL Broadband service and NETGEAR home networking products.

Under the terms of the agreement, NETGEAR and America Online are working together to ensure NETGEAR home networking products, including routers, are fully compatible with AOL broadband service offerings. The cooperation will yield products from NETGEAR that are easily identifiable as AOL Broadband compatible. The products will be made available in NETGEAR distribution channels across the United States. The companies will continue to work together so that future NETGEAR products and future versions of the AOL Broadband service function together seamlessly.

"NETGEAR is excited to work with America Online to make Internet sharing even easier," stated Patrick Lo, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of NETGEAR. "The customers of both NETGEAR and AOL can rest assured that as new NETGEAR home networking products are developed and new versions of AOL service are released, they will always work together."

For more information on NETGEAR's products, please visit: www.netgear.com

About NETGEAR Inc.
NETGEAR provides branded, easy-to-use, reliable and technologically advanced networking solutions for homes and small businesses. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, Calif., NETGEAR designs and develops products that enable home and small business users to share Internet access, peripherals, digital content and applications among multiple personal computers and other Internet-enabled devices. NETGEAR primarily markets and sells its products through distributors based in North America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific region to a network of resellers, including more than 4,500 retail stores, mail order catalogs and online retailers. NETGEAR was recently named to Deloitte & Touche's "Technology Fast 500" and to its "2001 Technology Fast 50" for Silicon Valley. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.netgear.com or call (408.907.8000).

For more information:
Doug Hagan
NETGEAR Inc.
(408) 907-8053
doug.hagan@netgear.com

Ken Hagihara
Integrity Public Relations
(949) 768-4423
ken@integritypr.net