A Question About Tracert

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BollaZee

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Hi,

a Tracert is used to determine the path that a packet used to get to his destination, more or less everyone knows that. My question is does a tracert measure the packets send, received and lost? does it measure the latency on those packets send, received and lost? Is there anyway it measures quality? or is it just used to determine the path a packet has taken to reach his destination, example: pc -> router -> isp -> provider -> provider -> isp -> server?
Feel free to correct me, I'm not 100% sure about this.

If I'm correct, how can a tracert be used to determine the quality of your internet connection? it merely shows that you have a connection.

Kind Regards.
 
Get ping plotter, it shows Jitter aswell which is more a "quality" test
 
Tracert does not really determine the quality of the network. It determines the path that packets take. Actually, not even that. There is no guarantee that all packets will follow the same path every time they go from point A to point B. Tracert is actually a hack on the TCP protocol. Packets are sent out with increasing TTL values. First packet has a TTL of 0, so it times out at the first hop. Second packet has TTL of 1 so it times out at second hop. etc etc. If you want to determine the quality of the network your best bet is to run multiple ping requests to your destination. Or, identify the hops along the way and then ping each one of those routers continuously to try and determine where the bad link is.
 
Thanks for the answers, So my next question, how can a ISP determine your connection quality with a tracert? the point I'm trying to make is if you have heavy latency and packet loss issues with all your international connections but the tracert is working?

example:
tracert shows the route etc and the latency it shows is +- 190ms.
All international connections in applications/games etc is 750ms and packet loss up to 60% (different apps and games).
 
@pedruid

Some of the equipment the relay ICMP Echo Requests is switche off. It will not reply to a ping command?
ICMP Echo Requests switched off.:D

Use WinMTR that one will show you packed loses.

Telkom is working to get my port moved.
 

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