SOLUTION: Windows 10 Ethernet randomly disconnects (Realtek)

[partyboy]

I am posting this in hopes to help anyone else that ever has this problem. Because I know many people do have this problem.

So you upgraded to windows 10 but now your internet randomly drops every 5 mins - couple hours... Well hopefully this is your fix. All you need to do is...

1. Go to Device Manager
2. Click the drop down for Network Adapters
3. Right click on RealTek PCIe GBE Family Controller and click "update driver software"
5. Click "browse my computer for driver software"
6. Click "let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
7. Select "9.1.402.2015"
8. Click Next

I really hope this helps someone on the interwebs with this same problem I had, I spent a couple days trying to figure out what the problem even was and how to fix it. Been working perfectly fine now for the whole day. If there's no update after this it means it's still working

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It happens, sometimes drivers need to be manually installed using this method when a driver fails or has not been "run as admin"

Sometimes it can be a matter of the OS not knowing or liking the "Driver's bound Digital Signature"

I for one always disable driver signature checking for this kind of reasons.

Mostly (if someone wants to know why) is because I need to use an un-signed driver for my Creative sound cards; which is actually stable un-like the official Creative ones.