Realtek Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Realtek. PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_01221854&REV_02 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Realtek Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver. The archive contains version 6.216.0120.2009 dated 2009-01-20 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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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!
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This driver is digitally signed by Realtek.
File size of the driver: 178135 bytes (173.96 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.5 stars by 64736 users.
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. Installing the Realtek Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

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 computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Realtek RTL8168C P /8111C P Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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