How to install indicator Netspeed in Ubuntu 16.10?

Have you considered try Indicator Netspeed Unity ? It was a fork of mgedmin's Netspeed Indicator. Despite its name, it should work with any panel that supports AppIndicators.

Quote from Webupd8 article.

Indicator Netspeed Unity is a heavily modified Indicator Netspeed, which adds the following extra features:

• four panel display modes: download, upload or total (either merged or separated) network speed;
• configurable bit rate prefix;
• shows total downloaded and uploaded data for the current session in the indicator menu ("All" item);

• enable/disable padding - when enabled, it preserves the indentation of indicator text (I recommend disabling this or else you'll end up
  with a gap between the icons and text);

• supports using custom icons (available via Dconf);

• added a settings menu which allows changing the upload/download prefix, change the theme to dark/light or current (system) theme and run nethogs for a more detailed analysis.

How to install ?

You can either use apt-get install command by adding ppa first.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fixnix/netspeed
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-netspeed-unity

Otherwise, you can install from the .deb files

32 Bit

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/fixnix/netspeed/ubuntu/pool/main/i/indicator-netspeed-unity/indicator-netspeed-unity_1.04-yakkety0_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i indicator-netspeed-unity_1.04-yakkety0_i386.deb

64 Bit

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/fixnix/netspeed/ubuntu/pool/main/i/indicator-netspeed-unity/indicator-netspeed-unity_1.04-yakkety0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i indicator-netspeed-unity_1.04-yakkety0_amd64.deb