Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 Driver

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The Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 is a wireless networking module produced by Intel. It is commonly used as a Wi-Fi adapter in laptops, ultrabooks, and other mobile computing devices. 

The "dual-band" feature means that it supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands, providing flexibility and potentially better performance in environments with a lot of wireless interference. The primary purpose of this module is to provide wireless internet connectivity to devices that do not have built-in Wi-Fi capabilities or to upgrade the Wi-Fi capabilities of devices with older or slower wireless adapters.

Installing the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 Driver

In order to get your hands on the latest Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 Driver, go to the bottom of this page, find the Captcha field and complete it successfully, and finally, press the Download button. 

Now that you have access to the latest files, here are the operating system versions that this driver is compatible with: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, all Linux kernels. As of 2023, there is no official Intel support for MacOS. 

To install the latest Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 driver on your Windows machine, simply find the executable file inside the Windows-dedicated folder, and double-click it to run the setup. Linux users, on the other hand, need to access the file via Terminal first (Ctrl + Alt + T to open Terminal).

Access the file by using the $cd command, followed by the exact location of the file (usually on Desktop). Next, use either cat README or cat INSTALL, depending on the name of the instruction file you find in the folder. 

The next step is installing the software via ./configure or ./install.sh command (if you can't find or don't see a configure script). Follow up with make and sudo make install commands one after another.