Excite@Home Speeds Installation of the @Home Service

@Home 1.7 Heightens Subscribers Multi-Media Internet Experience

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 6, 1999 Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM), a global media company and the leading provider of broadband Internet services via the cable infrastructure, today announced the release of @Home 1.7, the latest version of the client software for the @Home broadband Internet service. @Home 1.7's new "self-install" feature allows subscribers to install the software in one, easy step.

@Home 1.7 also adds two new plug-ins that improve subscribers video and multi-media experience VeonPlayer and MetaCreation's MetaStream. In addition, @Home and Tioga Systems developed a new "reset tool" that is included in @Home 1.7a self-healing software agent that quickly resolves common problems experienced by users.

"As we rapidly growth, we are continually enhancing the @Home service software to speed the installation process and deliver a unique multimedia Internet experience to our subscribers," said Jonathan Rosenberg, VP of product marketing. "@Home 1.7 helps us do it through its "express install" feature. And with our updated set of plug-ins, our subscribers get all of the latest tools for a faster, smoother, and richer multi-media experience of the @Home service."

@Home 1.7 gives @Home subscribers the latest Internet software in one place for a fast, interactive Internet experience. It includes a choice of Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 4.61, VeonPlayer, Shockwave7, Flash 4, RealPlayer G2, Quicktime 4, the @Home Assistant, and Tioga Self-Healing Software. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 represents a major improvement over Internet Explorer 4 in terms of stability, speed and ease of use.

About Excite@Home
Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) is a global media company based in Redwood City, Calif. Through the company's narrowband portal, Excite (www.excite.com), and broadband services @Home and @Work, the company uniquely offers consumers content and interactive services across both narrowband and broadband. The rich media advertising and database marketing solutions of Enliven (www.enliven.com) and MatchLogic (www.matchlogic.com) offer advertisers highly targeted interactive marketing and reporting services across all platforms of delivery. Leveraging the high-speed, always-on attributes of cable, Excite@Home empowers unique multimedia applications that go beyond current Web experiences. The company will combine the Excite brand -- one of the best-known names on the Internet with 70 percent recognition among Web users -- with the @Home broadband service's broad distribution, a worldwide footprint of 67 million cable homes, to deliver on its vision of "All Band, All Device, All the Time."

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This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include statements relating to the @Home 1.7 software, the functionality incorporated therein, and the expected benefits to @Home subscribers. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including the performance and reliability of the software and the plug-ins; the extent to which subscribers benefit from new functionality, and the extent to which consumers desire an interactive video experience. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described in Excite@Home’s filings with the SEC. Excite@Home assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.