$1.$Briefly describe what traceroute does and how it is useful $($you may find articles on traceroute on sources such as Wikipedia useful$).$

$2.$Use traceroute to trace the route from your home or work computer to your university$$s website. Show the traceroute output. What networks were encountered along the way? What information about the geographic locations of the routers can you infer from the trace? What was the longest mean delay on any hop along the way? What factors do you think caused this delay?

$3.$Use traceroute to trace the route from your home or work computer to the website of a university or company on another continent. Show the traceroute output. What networks were encountered along the way? What information about the geographic locations of the routers can you infer from the trace? What was the longest mean delay on any hop along the way? What factors do you think caused this delay?

$4.$Visit the websites of the ISPs on your route. Show the network coverage map of any one ISP on the route that provides this information. $($Note: This information is useful in marketing, therefore, most ISPs provide some graphical information about their coverage areas.$)$

Please answer these questions in simple terms please and thank you!