Display Wifi speed on the system tray

I am using a Xiaomi Redmi Note phone, the MIUI which is the custom ROM that comes with Mi phones gives this cool option to display network speed in the system tray. I find that useful specially when downloads are in process etc. So wanted the same for my lap top as well.

I saw my friend using a similar applet in his Ubuntu machine. So with a bit of googling around I found Netspeed Indicator Applet which displays the total current network traffic on system tray area on panel. You can check out the current download & upload speed from its drop-down menu.

Pretty simple steps to get it,

Open up the terminal and,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-netspeed

The applet will show up on the system tray in the next login, you have the option either monitoring network speeds for each interface (wlan , eth) separately or all at once.

Here's how it would look after you get it working,

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