NetStat data transfer difference

Hi Andrew,

Please look at the this video (1.3 MB). It highlights the data transfer speeds at 3 places - NetWorx Graph, NetWorks NetStat and qBittorrent. For the duration of the video, qBittorrent is the only application using the internet (some background usage by other apps may happen, which should be captured in NetStat).

However, NetStat seems to be out of sync by a big margin from the other two - Graph and qBittorrent; these two seem to be in sync more or less. Is this meant to be so (why?) or am I missing something?

Looks like a bug to me. What are you using for monitoring: the Ignore local traffic within the LAN tickbox or a WinPCap adapter?

I have set the tick box for ignoring LAN traffic and I installed with recommended settings of the installer. However, I have winpcap as I have wireshark installed.

I have run some tests and found that this happened because you had Only Established Connections ticked. This option displays established TCP connections only, while a Torrent program usually transfers data over UDP. Simply untick this option and you should be able to see full speed in Netstat.

Yeah!! Thanks Andrew.

I think there is something amiss still. The gap is considerable even after Only Established Connections as unchecked. Please look at this video (<1 MB)..

Hmm... do you have IPv6 working? We didn't have a chance to test it properly as our ISP doesn't support IPv6, but there's a possibility that Netstat misses out on some IPv6 connections.

No IPv6 ... not from ISP (at router) and not on this PC either.

Sorry I couldn't reproduce this. I have installed NetWorx and qTorrent on a Windows 10 machine and all reported numbers were alike.

Here is a video I recorded. Unfortunately I am unable to delve in it when this bug doesn't occur, so I guess we'll have to wait to see if anyone else reports it.

Sure, I understand. However, in your video, there is a difference in the "upload" ... qBittorrent is reporting 0 but NetWorx is reporting usage.

I guess this could be acknowledgements or some other kind of protocol data. Not uploading the actual file contents, but talking to other BitTorrent nodes.

Yes, quite right. Thanks.