Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC NDIS 6.0 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC NDIS 6.0 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_3FF31462&REV_01; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC NDIS 6.0 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC NDIS 6.0 driver. The archive contains version 6.214.1211.2008 dated 2008-12-11 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer 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.
Size of this driver: 165689 bytes (161.81 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 50001 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC NDIS 6.0 driver

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, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to 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 locate the Realtek Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC NDIS 6.0 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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