Network Troubleshooting using the TRACERT (TRACEROUTE) Command

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In this tutorial, we will go over the tracert (or traceroute) command for network troubleshooting. Tracert allows you to trace the route a packet takes to reach a destination. By using this utility we can gather some useful diagnostic information as to why our network connection isn't working properly.

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[jndominica]

The middle part of the trace is quite useful in diagnosing unusual latency. We can often see abbreviations of city names in the hops as well as ISPs, some of which are premium and some budget (level 3 > cogent > he). We can also see the approximate geographical location of the host, even if precise whois information for it is unavailable and the destination host itself cannot be pinged.

Note that the trace shows the path taken by our packets _towards_ the remote host. The _reverse_ route we could only see by doing a tracert on the remote computer.

[michaelailarov]

Thank you so much for the tutorials...very clear! i hope you can make more tutorials about linux or IT

[vigneshraj]

This is a good video for sure but, just for your information Akamai is not an ISP it's a CDN

[rexverdz]

Sir, why do some hops are the same? hope you'll respond for this is important for my masteral course. ty

[jb]

Please correct me, if I am wrong. I thought that, when doing tracert, if you privatized your IP, you would get "request timed out." Yes, or No?

[ChTrinath]

sir thank you for the video,
In my case when am trying to trace route all the hops are showing only ip address i.e it is not showing the details like akamai technolgy etc. ? 
and in some hops * (star) is indicated what does that indicate  ?

[FlmOG]

I have big ping problems :( My pings is just really high sometimes...
I made a tracert and saw that the 2. Pings are really high. Is it my fault or the fault of my provider?