To get the phone number to contact them you have to fill out a form on the website and get a case number.

There is no phone number to call, and I have to register online to get free support for 90 days after purchase.

Just hope you don't need Netgear tech support because even with the reported 90-day free support they make finding a phone number next to impossible and the ones you'll get with a Google search are almost always a fiction, leading you instead to swindlers who'll try to shake you down for huge fees to solve your problem or "protect you" from dramatic threats they just happen to discover while diagnosing your system

Believe I was contacted by scam tech support, although connected thru Netgear on-line Chat after I provided my phone number

They asked for phone number

I looked everywhere for a phone number for tech support

I also noticed on the box that there is a phone number to call for 24/7 tech support, which is very handy to

the phone number didn't work!

The person took my name and phone number to have someone call me

Connects to a person who asks a few questions, then requests your cell phone number for tech to call back.