Driver for Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek 8821AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC - downloading and installing it

Realtek 8821AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8821&SUBSYS_24821B9A is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek 8821AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek 8821AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC driver. The archive contains version 2023.34.0430.2016 dated 2016-05-25 of the driver.
2.  
3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
4.  
5. Go through 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.
6.  
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!
8.  

This driver is digitally signed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp..
The file size of this driver is 2963479 bytes (2.83 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.5 stars by 8942 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. How to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek 8821AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC driver using DriverMax

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. How can you install a driver using 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.
2.  
3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek 8821AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC driver. Click the Update button.
4.  
5. Finished installing the driver!
6.