Network Stats and Windows Vista / 7 possible solution

[coccolino_dbro]

It happens sometimes in Windows Vista or 7 that Smartie's network statistics doesn't see the physical adapter between the first 9, and selecting any other figure higher than 9 results in a range check error. I know some have encountered this problem, so did I, and I finally found a possible solution...

If you open Device manager and you check to show hidden devices, you'll see that there are a number of WAN Miniport adapters, besides the physical ones. Usually these adapters are listed first by Smartie, therefore you can't get values from the real adapter... What I did is I uninstalled all these adapters (don't exactly know their role, but after uninstalling them, I did detailed net tests, all went fine) to get the real one in the 1-9 range. The steps were:

1. open a command prompt as administrator
2. type netcfg -s a to display all installed adapters
3. find all wan miniport adapters (like WAN Miniport (PPOE), WAN Miniport (PPTP) etc.) and find each one's shorter name (identifier?) in the first row. Eg, for WAN Miniport (PPOE) its ms_pppoeminiport etc.
4 run these commands:
netcfg -e -u ms_sstpminiport
netcfg -e -u ms_pppoeminiport
netcfg -e -u ms_l2tpminiport
netcfg -e -u ms_pptpminiport
netcfg -e -u ms_ndiswanipv6
(alternatively, you could uninstall other adapters like teredo tunneling, ofcourse if you don't need such things)

By uninstalling those, I managed to get the real adapter within range, and could get statistics. I know I could have used perfmon, but I haven't found a counter to return total downloaded/uploaded. I hope it will be usefull for someone, I apologize for bad English (not my native language).

[spauka]

Yay, that worked perfectly. Thanks, for that. Perhaps thats something that can be fixed in future versions particularly if windows ships with those drivers installed by default?

[RichardG]

There's a similar bug in Vista, where sometimes the network cards section fills with [visible] "Microsoft ISATAP Adapter" entries.

In unrelated news, I also tried in another machine (a notebook). No bug was visible, but there was an adapter named "isatap." followed by an UUID beyond the wireless and network adapters.

[Operator]

Thank you so much, coccolino_dbro. This solved an issue that was bugging the hell out of me!

[warlock2511]

THIS IS THE RIGHT TIP !!! THX A LOT !

[valent43]

thanks for the hint!
but still i can't get any stats.. i got my network adapter on the 8th position after uninstalling a couple of others, but i can't get nothing more than the adapter name and IP
running on win7 64bit

[Master1280]

I just have the same problem and it's fixed now, thanks you very much!

[Zhenchik]

I didn't kill any protocols.
Here is my successfully working four lines:

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Downstr:$Chr(198)$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(perf,4,5,\Network Interface(Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller)\Bytes Received/sec),##0.0)B/s,$10%)
Upstr:  $Chr(197)$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(perf,4,5,\Network Interface(Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller)\Bytes Sent/sec),##0.0)B/s,$10%)
Total DL:$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(WMIQuery,1,select * from Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface WHERE Name="Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller",BytesReceivedPersec),#0.0)B,$9%) $Chr(198)
Total UL:$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(WMIQuery,1,select * from Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface WHERE Name="Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller",BytesSentPersec),#0.0)B,$9%) $Chr(197)

Plugins "formatting" and "WMIQuery" you can find at this forum.

[1Sogron83]

I didn't kill any protocols.
Here is my successfully working four lines:

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Downstr:$Chr(198)$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(perf,4,5,\Network Interface(Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller)\Bytes Received/sec),##0.0)B/s,$10%)
Upstr:  $Chr(197)$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(perf,4,5,\Network Interface(Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller)\Bytes Sent/sec),##0.0)B/s,$10%)
Total DL:$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(WMIQuery,1,select * from Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface WHERE Name="Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller",BytesReceivedPersec),#0.0)B,$9%) $Chr(198)
Total UL:$Right($dll(formatting,4,$dll(WMIQuery,1,select * from Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface WHERE Name="Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller",BytesSentPersec),#0.0)B,$9%) $Chr(197)

Plugins "formatting" and "WMIQuery" you can find at this forum.

Hy!
Is there a working solution for win7 64 bit? as i wanna use wmiquery plugin i've got an error with the plugin, and then no bridge func displayed on the lcd.

[Zhenchik]

Is there a working solution for win7 64 bit? as i wanna use wmiquery plugin i've got an error with the plugin, and then no bridge func displayed on the lcd.

Yes, my system is win7 x64.
For correction "no bridge func" problem read here
This "07-12-2010 - HOTFIX' info located on main page of official site.

Probably, to you there is useful information of the new fixed version of the Perf plugin. I use this version.