Hey Jibroni,

Thanks for posting. In most cases you are correct, if the earlier hops show issues such as packet loss or high latency but, it does not show at the final hop then those hops are likely not affecting the overall traceroute.

That being said, if you have packet loss appearing on Hop 1 it might be worth targeting your local devices to see if that packet loss is consistent. I would also encourage you to have a variety of targets to have a better idea of the health of your network.

Feel free to share any PingPlotter data you collect here or send it to us at support@pingman.com and we can look over your PingPlotter data. To export data in PingPlotter go to File > Export Sample Set (PP2).

Let me know if there are other questions you have or if you need anything else.

Thank you,

Sean Badten

PingPlotter | Technical Support Engineer