Using MTR for Network Diagnostics in Windows

MTR is a cross-platform tool designed for command-line network diagnostics. This tool combines the functionality of traceroute and ping. Like traceroute, the mtr command displays information about the route, displays a list of routers passing through this packet.

At the same time, mtr outputs significantly more information on the traceroute: the command determines the path to the remote PC when displaying the response percentage, plus the response time of all network transitions in the Internet route between the local system and remote machines. In this article, we will look at how to use MTR for network diagnostics in the Windows operating system.

Using the tool in Windows

In Windows, WinMTR is also suitable for solving such a task as network diagnostics. What should I do to use it? First of all, download the archive to your PC, run the administrator utility (to do this, click on the PCM icon and select the appropriate item).

To display IP addresses instead of hostname in the utility settings, turn off "Resolve names".

Then, in the Host field, you need to specify the domain of the site or the IP of the server where you need to test access. Now you can start the test by clicking the Start button.

Decoding of the main indicators:

After that, you need to wait until the system sends (Sent) at least 100 requests. This will take 100 seconds by default. At any time, the user can cancel sending requests by pressing the Stop button. but the more requests are sent, the more accurate the result.It is worth worrying when there are significant losses (Loss = 5% or more) or high delays (Avg = 350 or more), which can be seen on several resources at once. Click Export TEXT to pull out the information and provide it to a specialist.

We have reviewed how to use network diagnostics on Windows, then we will tell you how to do it on Linux.