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

Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_168F103C&REV_06; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver. The archive contains version 7.048.0823.2011 released on 2011-08-23 of the driver.
2.  
3. Run 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 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.  

This driver is digitally signed.
The file size of this driver is 364605 bytes (356.06 KB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 74005 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver. Click on Update.
4.  
5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
6.