Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E GBE NIC - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E GBE NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_81681019&REV_01.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver. The archive contains version 6.216.0120.2009 released on 2009-01-20 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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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!
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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
File size of the driver: 178135 bytes (173.96 KB)
Driver rating 4.7 stars out of 19196 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. How to install Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver using DriverMax

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, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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