Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet is a Network Adapters device. The developer of this driver was Broadcom. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_14e4&DEV_1655; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver. The archive contains version 16.8.1.0 dated 2013-09-12 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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File size of the driver: 235876 bytes (230.35 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 3 stars by 46756 users.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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