iStat Pro Problem!

Restart your MBP (or the Networking Service).

If it still doesn't work then remove and reinstall iStat.

If you have purchased the paid version, then I suggest getting in touch with iStat support people.

You can make backups of your Network Preferences and then delete them.

Go to Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ folder, make a copy of the following files to some other location and then remove them:

• com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
• com.apple.network.identification.plist
• NetworkInterfaces.plist
• preferences.plist

Restart your machine, add your network(s) using Network Preferences. See if iStat shows the correct data. Do this only if you are comfortable playing around with internals of the system.

It's just that I haven't done this operation myself. That's why I can't gurantee that it works or that it's perfectly safe.

Theoretically though, as long as you have a copy of these files stored somewhere, even in the unlikely case that something goes wrong, you can restore them and you're back where you were before.

It could be that the ident file belongs to a service you've never used before and therefore hasn't been created. I do have it on my machine. Shouldn't be a concern, only one less thing to do in your case.

Nope, mine shows Ext: Updating...

Never cared for that much, I'm only interested in bandwidth and speeds for Network section.

Yup, mine never gets past "Updating..." but I don't need it so not a bother.

iStat tracks your up/down transfers, total, real time speed and max speed. "Reset Bandwidth" just resets the counter for total amount of transfer. Same as if you restart your laptop.

the only way to get your _external_ IP is to ask some external service to determine it. If iStat shows updating/unknown on this - 99,998% that external service they're using is down or blocked somehow.

Here's one way to fix this problem, as it appears the islayer has stopped running the "FindMyIP" service:

Open this file in a code editor:

~/Library/Widgets/iStat\ Pro.wdgt/scripts/core.js

find this function:

function getExtIP(){

Replace this line:

ipURL = 'http://whatsmyip.islayer.com/?random='+new Date().getTime();

with this line:

ipURL = 'http://www.whatsmyip.us/showipsimple.php?random='+new Date().getTime();

Just above this "if" statement:

if(extIP.length < 20 && ipConnection.status == 200 && extIP.match(/\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/)){

Add these 2 lines:

extIP_len = extIP.length;

extIP = extIP.substring(16, (extIP_len - 3));

so that section would now appear:

extIP = ipConnection.responseText;

extIP_len = extIP.length;

extIP = extIP.substring(16, (extIP_len - 3));

if(extIP.length < 20 && ipConnection.status == 200 && extIP.match(/\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/)){

Note that you will have to restart the iStat widget by either using "-" and "+" to re-add it, or just hold down Command-R while clicking on a Widget. They'll spin like a black hole and restart.

It worked. I don't think the location was exact; but I found it. Thanks!

Thanks very much! This worked for me too.

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