How to run a traceroute

Overview

Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool that displays the route taken by packets across a network and measures any transit delays. This can be useful for troubleshooting when the speedtest at speed.cloudalize.com is showing high latency or Jitter.

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Run traceroute on Windows

1. Right-click the Start menu.
2. Click Run.
3. To open the command line interface, type cmd and then click OK.
4. At the command line prompt, type:
   For IPv4 -

   > tracert example.com

   For IPv6 -

   > tracert -6 example.com

5. Press Enter.
6. You can copy the results to save to a file or paste in another program.

Run traceroute on Linux

1. Open a terminal window.
2. At the command line prompt, type:
   For IPv4 -

   > traceroute example.com

   For IPv6 -

   > traceroute -6 example.com

3. You can copy the results to save to a file or paste in another program.

Run traceroute on Mac OS

1. Search for the Network Utility application and open it.
2. Click the Traceroute tab.
3. Type the domain or IP address in the appropriate input field and press Trace.
4. You can copy the results to save to a file or paste in another program.

Alternatively, you can follow the same instructions for running a traceroute on Linux (shown above) using the Mac OS terminal program, but for IPv6 use the command:

> traceroute6 example.com