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title: "mtr"
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category: "Networking and remote access"
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tagline: "traceroute and ping combined, updating live for every hop."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "mtr"
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command: "mtr"
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website: "https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/"
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code: "https://github.com/traviscross/mtr"
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---
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## What it is
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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.
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mtr example.com
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```
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## Why it's here
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- **Find the bad hop.** See whether a problem is your Wi-Fi, your ISP or further away.
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- **Live view.** Statistics build up over time instead of a single snapshot.
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## On CoreDesktop
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mtr is installed from pacman. Type `mtr` in a terminal. `update` keeps it current along with the rest of the pacman packages.
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