When looking at a Traceroute, there's usually two important values for each hop or router: Latency Packet Loss Latency: Refers to the time difference between the time when a packet was sent and when a response was received. The latency between two hops can be affected by a number of things such as: To qualify the latency in a traceroute as good or bad, you should analyze historical traceroutes.

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What are Traceroutes and how exactly do they help you troubleshoot network problems? Traceroute is the most popular tool that network engineers use to troubleshoot network problems. It was invented in 1987 and is still highly relevant today. As its name suggests, the main purpose of a traceroute is to trace the IP route from a source to a destination inside an IP network. It shows users the round-trip latency from the source to each of the routers. Traceroute commands are available on almost any host.