Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. USB/VID_0BDA&PID_317F&REV_0200&SS is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle driver

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 1021.11.0724.2013 released on 2013-07-24 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 started 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 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
Download size of the driver: 813567 bytes (794.50 KB)
Driver rating 4.1 stars out of 38001 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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. Installing the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and click 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 available driver updates. Search the list until you find the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8188RU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB High Power Dongle driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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