Realtek Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI GBE NIC - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI GBE NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. This driver was developed by Realtek. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8169&SUBSYS_04CAA0A0.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI GBE NIC driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI 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 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 quite 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 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 by Realtek.
Driver file size: 178135 bytes (173.96 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 5 stars out of 74766 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. Using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI GBE NIC 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 easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI GBE NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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