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I've been having network issues and I noticed that my traceroutes were looking a bit weird considering I'm connected directly to my modem, which goes straight to the cable.
Tracing route to www.google.com [173.194.219.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.50.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 11 ms 8 ms 9 ms 192.168.224.230
4 16 ms 13 ms 12 ms 192.168.214.1
5 13 ms 10 ms 10 ms 192.168.22.41
6 11 ms 11 ms 9 ms 192.168.15.18
7 189 ms 198 ms 196 ms 72.14.211.5
8 133 ms 161 ms 131 ms 72.14.232.86
9 137 ms 137 ms 135 ms 216.239.41.37
10 143 ms 141 ms 139 ms 64.233.174.9
11 136 ms 137 ms 137 ms 72.14.239.64
12 203 ms 197 ms 180 ms 209.85.143.193
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 135 ms 138 ms 135 ms ya-in-f104.1e100.net [173.194.219.104]
Is it normal for the first hops to look like that? The setup is literally my computer connected to the modem which goes to the post.
Thanks.
What sort of network issues have you been having? This tracert is not normal, there are several peculiarities, but they are not necessarily indicative of a problem. – Marcks Thomas – 2015-06-12T17:49:02.197
I'm having latency issues on a couple of games, and a couple of streaming sites don't really work at all. – hiddencat – 2015-06-12T18:10:24.610
"I'm having latency issues on a couple of games" tracerts to the game servers would be more interesting. Note also that pathping gives more useful results. However neither tracert or pathping diagnose the reverse route which could be where the problem lies. The forward route and the reverse route may be (and often are) completely different ("Asymmetric"). – DavidPostill – 2015-06-12T18:16:21.837
A Loose Source Route
– DavidPostill – 2015-06-12T18:18:31.327tracert -j
can be used to see the reverse route. Unfortunately, source routing has a great potential for abuse, and therefore most network administrators block all source-routed packets at their border routers. So, in practice, Loose Source Routes aren't going to work.1Yeah I pathpinged to the specific server I was having particular issues with (Blizzard) and they asked me if I was trying to connect from a school or an office, because of the local hops. They also told me that one of the hops was having a particularly high % of packet loss and that I should ask my ISP, but I phoned them and their answer was "yeah this is normal" but no actual answer was given. – hiddencat – 2015-06-12T18:19:25.387
Who is your ISP? – DavidPostill – 2015-06-12T18:20:12.133
South America based; VTR. – hiddencat – 2015-06-12T18:21:22.427