Thread: Reporting Lag - How to Tracert

Tracert results should look like:

Code:

C:\Windows\system32>tracert tpgbf4.nfoservers.com


Tracing route to tpgbf4.nfoservers.com [67.215.65.132]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    33 ms    28 ms    29 ms  c-98-215-144-1.hsd1.il.comcast.net [98.215.144.1]
  3     9 ms     9 ms     8 ms  te-9-1-ur02.pekin.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.85.179.69]
  4    12 ms     9 ms     7 ms  te-8-3-ur01.pekin.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.85.176.130]
  5    17 ms    18 ms    19 ms  te-0-11-0-9-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.85.177.162]
  6    17 ms    20 ms    21 ms  he-3-7-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.53]
  7    17 ms    19 ms    19 ms  he-1-2-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.88.25]
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9    40 ms    37 ms    36 ms  4.69.158.218
 10    37 ms    36 ms    38 ms  ae-101-3501.edge2.chicago2.level3.net [4.69.158.1]
 11    16 ms    18 ms    16 ms  open-dns-in.edge2.chicago2.level3.net [4.30.175.70]
 12    18 ms    16 ms    15 ms  hit-nxdomain.opendns.com [67.215.65.132]


Trace complete.

To do a tracert, open a command prompt (cmd.exe if you go to the start menu -> run) and type:

tracert <server ip/name>

The bf4 servers are named following (use the name because the ip may change):
tpgbf4.game.nfoservers.com
teamplayergaming.game.nfoservers.com

CSGO (use the name because the ip may change):
tpgcsgoserver.game.nfoservers.com

TF2:
72.249.124.135

L4D2:
50.56.185.42

DOD:S:
72.249.124.131

Originally Posted by WileECyte

Also... the little bit on reporting lag via tracert is a nice touch, but it's also important for them to look at packet loss. Easiest way to do this is to run: ping -n 100 <ip>


This will send 100 packets at the server IP. It'll give you a min, max & average latency as well as any packet loss. Traceroute doesn't always see the entire picture. There may be intermittent lag spikes where their ping goes from 50ms to 250ms and they may be encountering high packet loss, which causes your PC to have to re-transmit data.

Reporting lag without this information is relatively useless to us, so please. Pretty please with sugar on it. Tracert.

OP updated.