Netstat widget is inaccurate
jacobg-jellyfish opened this issue · comments
The Netstat script which provides the data for the network up/down widget is inaccurate.
Whilst doing speedtests, the reported speed of the widget was less than half of what was reported by speedtest.
Additionally whilst the widget is running - I output the contents of the /tmp/netstats.out file and noticed that the row with the actual number of bytes would be empty.
The simple-bar network stats widget utilizes the output of the netstat command and converts the bytes into a readable format.
Although I am not entirely familiar with its inner workings, it appears that the internet speed test does not directly use the displayed amount of data. Instead, it estimates your network's maximum capacity.
To observe this behavior, you can run the following command to display the network activity for all your opened apps:
nettop -P -k state,interface -dUpon inspecting the row corresponding to your web browser and initiating an internet speed test, you should see that the same data is displayed in the simple-bar netstats widget.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there is any problem with the netstats widget. :)
@Jean-Tinland Thank you for that explanation. I double checked things using that logic and thats cleared things up nicely.