My traceroute (it used to be called Matt’s traceroute (MTR) combines traceroute and ping in a single network diagnostic tool. It is a useful network troubleshooting tool which investigates the network connection between the host in which it runs and a destination host specified by user.

The MTR will show you a list of routers traversed and the average round trip time and packet loss.

• Host name: host which you will want to use to diagnostic test
• DNS loockup: determines if host names should be looked up in DNS
• Loss% – shows the percentage of packet loss at each hop
• Snt – shows the number of packets sent
• Rcv – shows the number of packages received;
• Last – shows the latency of the last packet sent
• Avg – shows you the average response time of the ping attempts.
• Best – shows the best (shortest) ping response time out of all the attempts.
• Wrst – shows the worst (longest) response time of all the ping attempts.
• StDev – shows the standard deviation of the latencies to each host