Microsoft Windows LAN Status Packets vs Bytes

The Packets and Bytes counter of the Windows LAN status is rely upon the driver.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296669

The following MS-DOS batch file can be used as a workaround:

@echo off
:REPEAT
CLS
ECHO %DATE% %TIME%
ECHO.
netstat -e
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 800 > NUL
GOTO :REPEAT