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I'm trying to understand the difference between the bytes sent/received values returned by both netstat and wmic on Windows. I'm having a hard time finding an explanation for the significant variation.

Why is the byte count much higher when I use netstat -e vs wmic path Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface BytesReceivedPersec,BytesSentPersec?

Here is sample output on Windows 10, with the two commands executed within seconds of each other:


C:\>wmic path Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface get BytesReceivedPersec,BytesSentPersec
BytesReceivedPersec  BytesSentPersec  
78940574             8900684                 
0                    0                

C:\>netstat -e
Interface Statistics

                           Received            Sent

Bytes                     395132042        45097469
Unicast packets              469727          257804
Non-unicast packets          242855            5539
Discards                          0               0
Errors                            0               4
Unknown protocols                 0
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  • I used `netstat -e` to do a batch script to monitor traffic bandwidth and I found as you did, that the amount of byte reported is like 5 times greater too... – Leopoldo Sanczyk Mar 19 '18 at 22:44

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