Download and install Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver

Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Intel Corporation. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_24F3&SUBSYS_00508086.

1. Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. The archive contains version 18.33.1.1 released on 2016-02-04 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup 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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Intel Corporation applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 6317018 bytes (6.02 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.2 stars out of 88978 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• 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. Installing the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Intel Corporation Intel R Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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