No download speed shown

[Simoooon]

currently running v.2.0.4

I have both wifi and ethernet connected. Display prefers interface
set to primary(automatic)... no download speed. upload speed was right set to ethernet. no download speed either, upload speed was right

I have only ethernet connected. no download speed, upload speed was right.

I have only wifi connected. everything works fine.

[AhmedOS]

I have same issue. This issue occurred after updating from Mojave to Catalina. I was using MenuMeters v1.9.x, so I thought this version may not be compatible with Catalina somehow and I need to update it, so I did update MenuMeters to latest version and still download meter not working.

[hoondi]

Also have the problem.

No download speed showing… Upload is working though. What's interesting is that Activity Monitor is also not showing any activity, but it does show the kernel_task receiving data/packets in its respective column.

I'm using an ATTO ThunderLink NT2102 10GB Thunderbolt 2 enclosure though so I suspect something's not plumbed through correctly for MM to see anymore.

The thing is, I have used the 10GB adapter for some time now and do recall seeing download speeds rendered by MM, so I suspect it's more something Apple has changed in recent delta updates of Catalina.

Would it have something to do with Apple deprecating kexts soon? I'm not sure really how but it's the only thing that comes to my mind right now.

[hoondi]

I am also seeing no ethernet (Moshi USBc Adapter) download value on my laptop running macOS 10.15.3. RX value is zero as well. Am about to update to 10.15.4 and will retest with just WiFi as well.

[hoondi]

Have upgraded to macOS 10.15.4 and no change.

As soon as disconnect the Moshi branded USBc → Ethernet adapter and use WiFi, the downloads value is instantly rendered again in the menu bar. Plug the Moshi back in and it stays at 0B/s

Apple have made some changes recently regarding Kernel programming interfaces (KPIs) and is now starting to tighten the screws even more. https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/

Would this somehow be related?

[yujitach]

I believe the underlying reason is the same as #128 .

[hoondi]

now that Bug: wrong Wi-Fi interface speed #128 is closed, I'm still seeing download speeds not showing for non Apple NICs. Does this suggest the network section has to use a new API from Apple?

[hoondi]

Just updated to 10.15.6 and download speeds are showing not showing… 8((

[yujitach]

@shaizu reported the following:

I've issue with horndis and usb wifi tp-link wn725n macOS version is 10.15.7 (19H2) menumeter version is 2.0.8

originally at https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters/issues/155#issuecomment-718508924

[yujitach]

A potential way out was suggested in #184 . I should combine both issues, but I haven't made up my mind.

[yujitach]

Hi everyone, could you test https://github.com/exelban/stats and tell me if it shows the correct speed or not. If it does, I can port stats' code to MenuMeters.

[AhmedOS]

@yujitach No it doesn't work, wrong upload speed, and zero download speed, similar to this issue. However, "Top processes" speeds seems to be correct.

[hoondi]

ah…

I think it’s counting totals only… 8((

Yep…

Gone up by 200MB in the time I took these screenshots for you:

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[yujitach]

Dear everyone, I'd like to know if the problem persists on Big Sur...

[hoondi]

Still not working for me on 11.0.1. I ran a download test via Safari and you can see the MenuMeters upload value is working and sending back tcp packets for the downloaded packets, just nada for the download meter even though I'm downloading over 20MB/s.

Additionally, Apple's own Activity Monitor.app does not record packets downloaded (coming in) when using third party network kexts, so my guess is that ATTO (in my case) will need to modernise its drivers?

[yujitach]

@hoondi Thanks. If it doesn't show up even in Apple's own Activity Monitor, I don't think I can do anything with MenuMeters...

[hoondi]

Hi Yujitach,

Big ta for you efforts on this too by the way!

Yeah it’s an interesting one…

In Activity Monitor.app, it clearly shows each process in the network tab that is receiving data (MB or GB) as well as packets, and the kernel_task process seems to show any and all activity of network data.

I’m wondering if there’s a library that exists (probably private no doubt) that Activity Monitor.app uses, that could be used to measure the total MB/sec each second and only show the delta each second of the kernel_task to get “by the second” global throughput.

i.e. include a checkbox for “3rd party” NICs in MenuMeters for NICs that don’t use Apple’s IONetwork Libraries and thus opt to show the above instead.

I’m doing something similar using Bitbar https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins?from=getbitbar.com&dest= to gauge MB/s reads or writes from my Flash storage.

It’s simply a shell script that manipulates the command: iostat -dc 2 disk0 each second.

Cheers,

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