Intel Corporation Intel R Wireless-AC 9260 160MHz - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Intel R Wireless-AC 9260 160MHz is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Intel Corporation. PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_2526&SUBSYS_40108086 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Intel Corporation Intel R Wireless-AC 9260 160MHz driver manually

1. Download the setup file for Intel Corporation Intel R Wireless-AC 9260 160MHz driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 21.120.2.1 released on 2020-09-06.
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3. Run the driver setup file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the fresh driver, it is as simple as that.
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Intel Corporation applied a digital signature to this driver.
Driver file size: 16673246 bytes (15.90 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4 stars by 88307 users.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Intel Corporation Intel R Wireless-AC 9260 160MHz driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and click 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Intel Corporation Intel R Wireless-AC 9260 160MHz driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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