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title: "How to: Use pathping"
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# How to: Use pathping

Pathping is a useful Windows tool similar to MTR in Linux. It combines the functionality of ping and traceroute together to give you a trace that records ping latency and packet loss along the path.

#### Opening command prompt

You can do this by typing "cmd" in the start search box or by pressing the Windows key + "R", typing "cmd", and clicking "command prompt".![](https://cdn.document360.io/d809f158-d4f4-47ff-83d4-18d9c9f7a04d/Images/Documentation/SCR-20260424-ntwr-2.jpeg)

To perform a pathping, open a command prompt and enter the following command: **pathping remote-server** where remote-server is the ip address or hostname you want to test.

This will give you an output similar to the picture below:![](https://cdn.document360.io/d809f158-d4f4-47ff-83d4-18d9c9f7a04d/Images/Documentation/image-1657602641438.png)

*To get a greater sample size, you can add the "-q #" option to query each hop a number of times*