Driver for Realtek Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E GBE NIC - downloading and installing it

Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E GBE NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Realtek. PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_101F1462&REV_03 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Realtek Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E GBE NIC - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek RTL8168D/8111D 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. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is enabled please accept 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 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.
Size of this driver: 176024 bytes (171.90 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4 stars out of 80661 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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 RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E GBE NIC 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver with 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 scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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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 RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E GBE NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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