Realtek Dragon Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver download and installation

Dragon Gigabit Ethernet Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_816810EC&REV_17; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Realtek Dragon Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Dragon Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. The archive contains version 10.002.0703.2015 dated 2015-07-03 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 started 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 pretty 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 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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This driver is digitally signed.
Download size of the driver: 522279 bytes (510.04 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.8 stars by 65035 users.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Using DriverMax to install Realtek Dragon Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver

The 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 using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Dragon Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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