Windows 10: Get-NetAdapterStatistics

Hello!

Recently we decided to buy some Surface devices for our sales department. I try to make PS script that gathering for us information about data usage. I know there is command Get-NetAdapterStatistics but tested on Surface devices with LTE builtin modem this command hang. How can i figure out whats going wrong, or had someone similar problem?

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netstat and NetAdapterStatistics give different results

When I run netstat and NetAdapterStatistics on the same machine (Windows 10)

at the same time, the results reported for bytes and packets by netstat are

almost four times those reported by NetAdapterStatistics. Below is a sample

summary. Why is this? What am I missing?

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Command: netstat -e (run at command prompt)

Start Time: 16:50:18.50 End Time: 17:11:51.44

Start End Difference

Bytes Received 232943268 - 205103136 = 27,840,132

Bytes Sent 2489317088 - 2281037816 = 208,279,272

Unicast packets Received 4483360 - 4344872 = 138,488

Unicast packets Sent 2711756 - 2493748 = 218,008

Non-unicast packets Received 17672 - 16176 = 1,496

Non-unicast packets Sent 17424 - 16636 = 788

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Command: NetAdapterStatistics "Ethernet 3" (run in PowerShell)

Start Time: 4:50:05 PM End Time: 5:11:37 PM

Start End Difference

ReceivedBytes 58187088 - 51225815 = 6,961,273

ReceivedUnicastPackets 1120228 - 1085584 = 34,644

SentBytes 621049914 - 568942095 = 52,107,819

SentUnicastPackets 676811 - 622271 = 54,540

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Ratio of netstat output to NetAdapterStatistics output:

Bytes Received 27840132 / 6961273 = 3.9992874866421704

Bytes Sent 208279272 / 52107819 = 3.997082894603591

Unicast packets Received 138488 / 34644 = 3.997459877612285

Unicast packets Sent 218008 / 54540 = 3.9972130546387974

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Get-Net* PowerShell cmdlets failing with Invalid class

How can I troubleshoot and fix Get-Net* PowerShell cmdlets? All of the following are failing with Invalid class. I'm using Windows 10, version 1511 and do not have the option to upgrade to 1607 at this point.

First PowerShell version:

Errors:

I'm trying to use Docker for Windows 10 (which used to work) but the PowerShell failures are causing Docker to not start (GitHub issue). The errors are occurring on my host, not inside Docker containers. For the sake of this question you should ignore the Docker details, it is just that I cannot use Docker due to this problem.

 

Capture network usage from command line or powershell?


You can execute Netstat -e -s command displays Ethernet statistics.

You can also execute Get-NetAdapterStatistics powershell command to gather network adapter statistics. It provides a quick overview of the sent and received packets.