If you liked using WinMTR on Windows machines to troubleshoot network connections and latency and looking for a similar tool on a Mac OS X there is an app for that.
It’s called MTR, written by Matt Kimball. MTR stands for Matt TraceRoute or My TraceRoute whichever works for you.
On your Mac, start by downloading latest version from this FTP resource (scroll to the end and download .tar.gz file):
ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
To unpack it, double click on the file in Finder. Assuming it’s in ~Downloads folder, open Terminal and type the following:
cd Downloads
cd mtr-0.81
export LIBS='-lm -ltermcap -lresolv'
./configure
make
sudo make install
alias mtr=/usr/local/sbin/mtr
To permanently save the alias, run this:
open ~/.bash_profile
add to the file:
alias mtr=/usr/local/sbin/mtr
Now to use it, open Terminal and type mtr with IP address:
mtr 8.8.8.8
Enjoy
Or just download and install this .pkg
https://support.eapps.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/442/28/mtr-for-mac-os-x
On macos 10.8.3, I get this error as one of the messages during ./configure:
checking for GTK+ – version >= 2.6.0… no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why…
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
And make fails.
It seems to be the issue with 10.8.3 and 10.8.4 OSX versions. I’m trying to find the solution and will post as soon as I find it.
If you have macports installed then do “sudo port install mtr” and you’re all set. At least works with osx 10.8.4.