Comment 2 for bug 178399

I've got this problem too. Not quite sure what to do with nload, could you describe? Thanks.

I've attached a screenshot showing the difference between what wget is telling me and what System Monitor is telling me.

This problem only cropped up when I moved from normal ethernet connection and rt2x00-based wireless to exclusively using an atheros card. I think the source of it is that the atheros drivers create two interfaces -- wifi0 (sort of a control device) and ath0 (a virtual device). Both of them send and receive data (if only virtually), so System Monitor doesn't know that they're the same device and thus reports roughly double the rate.

tcpstat confirms this, but I think the screenshot attached should show it sufficiently.