What's the point of installing Realtek Ethernet Controller Driver? (Win 10)

Sammy_4

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Jun 24, 2016
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Hello,

So, last week i built myself a new PC, i bought an MSI motherboard (H170A PC MATE) and when i went to their website to download the drivers i saw there's this driver "Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Drivers". What's the point of having it? I mean it didn't help me at all, everytime i was booting my computer i was getting "no internet" notification on the right hand side of the taskbar. I use a broadband connection and everytime i was getting that error i had to disable and then re-enable the network adapter. Just minutes ago i uninstalled that driver and i must say that it works even better without it, i restarted my PC and the network works just fine, i am not getting those errors anymore, and the pages load even faster now.
 
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There really is no need to install that driver in Windows 10 for your motherboard. You would need to install a driver for Windows 7 and probably also 8, but newer motherboards with commonly used devices already have drivers available in Windows 10.

If for some reason you wanted to install the driver, you would probably need to uninstall the Windows 10 supplied driver first. But I would just go with the current driver since it works for you.

RealBeast

Titan
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There really is no need to install that driver in Windows 10 for your motherboard. You would need to install a driver for Windows 7 and probably also 8, but newer motherboards with commonly used devices already have drivers available in Windows 10.

If for some reason you wanted to install the driver, you would probably need to uninstall the Windows 10 supplied driver first. But I would just go with the current driver since it works for you.
 
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