From the course: Windows 10: Networking (2018)

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Use tracert to troubleshoot network connectivity

Use tracert to troubleshoot network connectivity - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 10: Networking (2018)

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Use tracert to troubleshoot network connectivity

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- [Instructor] If you're having trouble reaching a destination host and that host is a few routers away, meaning it isn't on the local network, you can use the tracert command to see where in the process, the data packets get lost. The command works by tracing the data as it passes from router to router, and each one it passes through is referred to as a hop. By evaluating the hops, you can pinpoint, at the very least, where a problem occurs. Let's open a PowerShell window and test it out. I'll type PowerShell here on the taskbar and click Windows PowerShell in the results. Now let's type tracert www.linkedin.com. You can see here that the connection is successful, because the result ends at the LinkedIn destination. If you see asterisks, a response wasn't given in the expected interval. But if you wait, you may see that, eventually, data is returned from another source, provided the host can be reached in the end, like it did here. If it takes a long time for data to get from one…

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