Driver for Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller - downloading and installing it

Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_80221509&REV_03; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver. The archive contains version 7.089.0716.2014 dated 2014-07-16 of the driver.
2.  
3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
4.  
5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
6.  
7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
8.  

There is no digital signature available for this driver.

This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 3.8 stars out of 37535 votes.

2. Using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver

The most important 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 easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
2.  
3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver. Click the Update button.
4.  
5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
6.