Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle driver download and installation

Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0BDA&PID_317F; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle driver. The archive contains version 1027.4.1024.2017 dated 2017-12-27 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 setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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Realtek Semiconductor Corp. applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 1732237 bytes (1.65 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.4 stars out of 38822 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• 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. Using DriverMax to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle 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. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~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. Search the list until you find the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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