Monthly Archive: August 2018

Whenever there is slowness issue to be investigated, the first thing to be usually checked is packet drops or high latency along the path, tools like traceroute (or tracert on windows) and nping are usually enough to draw a map of the traffic path and in some cases are enough to find out at which hop of the path we start to see a huge difference in a packet’s RTT (Round Trip Time), while the traditional traceroute may be more than adequate for a lot of cases, there are sometimes when additional proof is needed to confirm the root cause of the problem.