Which command shows even more statistics about each hop along a route than traceroute?

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Pathping combines the quick path discovery of traceroute with extended probing to each hop, giving detailed per-hop statistics. It first traces the route to the destination, then prolongs probing of every intermediate router to measure latency and packet loss at each hop. This lets you see not just the route, but where along that route delays and losses are occurring. Traceroute shows the path and RTT to each hop but doesn’t quantify per-hop loss over time. Ping targets a single host and reports overall round-trip times, not how every intermediate router behaves. nslookup is for resolving domain names to IPs, not for assessing network routing. So pathping provides the most complete, hop-by-hop statistics, helping you identify where problems lie along the route.