---
title: "mtr"
category: "Networking and remote access"
tagline: "traceroute and ping combined, updating live for every hop."
source: "pacman"
package: "mtr"
command: "mtr"
website: "https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/"
code: "https://github.com/traviscross/mtr"
---

## What it is

mtr shows the path your traffic takes to another host and keeps measuring it: for each router along the way it shows packet loss and response times, updated continuously. It's the quickest way to see where a slow or dropping connection goes wrong.

```
mtr example.com
```

## Why it's here

- **Find the bad hop.** See whether a problem is your Wi-Fi, your ISP or further away.
- **Live view.** Statistics build up over time instead of a single snapshot.

## On CoreDesktop

mtr is installed from pacman. Type `mtr` in a terminal. `update` keeps it current along with the rest of the pacman packages.