Visual Trace Route

FREE Visual replacement for the standard trace route utility This utility can quickly trace a route from your computer to any other device.

FREE Visual replacement for the standard trace route utility. This software is the fastest way to get the route between your computer and any other computer in the world.

A utility that traces a packet from your computer to an Internet host, showing how many hops the packet requires to reach the host and how long each hop takes.

If you're visiting a Web site and pages are appearing slowly, you can use traceroute to figure out where the longest delays are occurring. Visual Trace Route utility work by sending packets with low time-to-live (TTL) fields.

The TTL value specifies how many hops the packet is allowed before it is returned. When a packet can't reach its destination because the TTL value is too low, the last host returns the packet and identifies itself.

By sending a series of packets and incrementing the TTL value with each successive packet, traceroute finds out who all the intermediary hosts are.

You can start Visual Trace Route from the desktop icon, or from the program group manager of the start menu. Also, you can start Visual Trace Route is from Command Prompt. First, start Command Prompt from the Start/Run menu.

Here are some key features of "Visual Trace Route":