Intel Intel R Ethernet Connection I218-V - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Intel R Ethernet Connection I218-V is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Intel. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_1559.

1. Install Intel Intel R Ethernet Connection I218-V driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Intel Intel R Ethernet Connection I218-V driver. The archive contains version 12.12.80.19 dated 2014-09-29 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer 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 not digitally signed.

This driver received an average rating of 3.1 stars out of 62899 votes.

2. How to use DriverMax to install Intel Intel R Ethernet Connection I218-V 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 can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you find the Intel Intel R Ethernet Connection I218-V driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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