Question 4th Hop showing packet loss! Is it a problem ?

[Tansin]

Recently, I'm seeing 60%-70% Packet loss in PingPlotter of my 4th hop. and after using tracert command in CMD. It's shows something like this :

C:\Users\Tansin>tracert google.com

Tracing route to google.com [172.217.163.206]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 59.153.100.15
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 172.16.16.53
4 * * 1 ms 59.153.100.105
5 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 103.15.245.117
6 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 157.119.185.211
7 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 157.119.185.228
8 69 ms 68 ms 68 ms 74.125.119.106
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 71 ms 70 ms 71 ms 74.125.253.16
11 72 ms 71 ms 71 ms 108.170.253.106
12 72 ms 72 ms 72 ms 74.125.242.129
13 72 ms 72 ms 72 ms 209.85.248.219
14 71 ms 71 ms 71 ms maa05s06-in-f14.1e100.net [172.217.163.206]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Tansin>

Now, My question is is there anything that I need to fix.

Thanks In Advance

 

[bill001g]

No you would see problems at every hop past that point if it was real packet loss. Lets say it is like hop 9 if it is really 100% packet loss how would you ever see hop 10.

Equipment is designed to favor passing traffic that responding to ping/trace. They would rather use the CPU power to not cause delay or discard of actual data. Some devices also have limitation on to how much ping type traffic they respond to to prevent denial of service attacks against routers. There are other strange cases where intermediate routers have a different path back to the source ip. Even the final hop may have a different path back and you can't see it unless you do the trace from the other end.

These tools tend to tell lies like you are seeing. They are of limited use for home internet users. You need access to other devices in the path to determine what is really going on. Only the ISP working with other ISP can really do things like this.

Realistically you can only fix hop 1 and maybe hop 2 if you call your ISP to fix the line to your house.