Quote Originally Posted by _Groovy View Post
Dude, I've been running so many traceroutes in the past hour I didn't even notice lol. But do the asterisks not also point to an issue? Apologies in advance, I'm not very versed in networking. But is it not both? I'm only getting 90ks during peak hours, 2am - 10am is fine.
(Don't judge me)
Asterisks simply point to a ping timeout. This does not always mean that packets are dropped. Entirely possible for the router or switch in question to simply be busy and throw away ping requests as those are inconsequential to it working.