Traceroute

A traceroute is a utility that traces a packet from your host to a remote host, showing how many hops (routes) the packet needs to take to reach the remote host and how long each hop takes. If you visit a website on the internet and it is loading up slowly then you could perform a traceroute to figure out where along the route is going wrong.

How do I perform a traceroute?
Its fairly simple, if you are running win 95/98 or ME then go to start --> Run and type command , if you are running win NT/2000 or XP then type cmd . Once you are in command prompt type tracert <remote host> , for example tracert www.webmonky.co.uk .

Here is an example of what a traceroute will look like:

C:\Documents and Settings\Nick Jones>tracert www.gradwell.net

Tracing route to blue.gradwell.net [195.149.39.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 10.4.128.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms gsr01-kn.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.0.33]
3 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms kno-rab-kno-cai-pos.telewest.net [194.117.136.66]
4 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms tele2-kno-rab-pos.telewest.net [194.117.136.70]
5 17 ms 15 ms 14 ms ge51-linx-gw1.cableinet.net [194.117.154.9]
6 22 ms 16 ms 16 ms lon1-9.nildram.net [195.66.224.59]
7 19 ms 21 ms 17 ms lon1-10.nildram.net [195.149.20.141]
8 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms loudclear-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.118]
9 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms blue.gradwell.net [195.149.39.10]

Trace complete.

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