What traceroute / MTR is for
Each TTL step shows a hop. Rising latency or loss can mean congestion or distance. MTR averages several rounds.
This is the path from our host, not your PC. Stars are not outages. Check ping and HTTP separately.
Examples
- Short path
8–12 hops · low RTTTypical for anycast DNS.- Stars mid-path
hops 5–7 *That ASN may disable ICMP.