MTR from our Tirana node runs a continuous per-hop latency and loss measurement toward your target. It reveals each router on the path from AS197706 (Keminet) outward, showing where latency accumulates and where any packet loss begins. Tirana routes typically exit through Keminet's upstream transit — commonly GTT (AS3257) or Telia (AS1299) — before reaching Italian or Austrian interconnect points.

A typical MTR from Tirana to a Frankfurt target will show: first 1–2 hops inside Keminet's network adding 1–3 ms, then a hop to the upstream transit border router around 8–12 ms, then transit through Italy or Austria adding another 15–20 ms, finally arriving at the Frankfurt destination around 44–50 ms total. A deviation from this pattern — for example, a sudden jump from 12 ms to 80 ms at a transit hop — indicates either a routing anomaly or a congested international link.

Loss visible only at a single intermediate MTR hop but absent at all subsequent hops is almost always ICMP rate-limiting at that router and does not represent real packet loss for application traffic. Loss that persists from a hop onward through the destination is genuine congestion or a routing fault. MTR from Albania is most useful when a user in the region reports intermittent connectivity — a single ping will not reveal the specific hop where the problem originates, but a 30-second MTR run will.

Albania's internet infrastructure is concentrated in Tirana, where the majority of the country's carrier infrastructure, colocation, and peering is located. AITEX (Albanian Internet Exchange) is the primary national IX, providing a domestic peering point that reduces the need for Albanian ISPs to hair-pin traffic through Vienna or Frankfurt. Keminet SHPK (AS197706) is one of the largest domestic providers and operates significant infrastructure within Tirana, including the node used for our checks.

International transit from Albania primarily exits via submarine cable and terrestrial links toward Italy and Greece. The Tirana-to-Rome path runs approximately 25–30 ms over well-routed paths, and Tirana-to-Vienna sits around 30–35 ms. These figures put Albania within usable reach of Central and Western European CDN infrastructure, though latency is noticeably higher than from hub countries like Germany or the Netherlands. Providers with direct links to Telecom Italia or A1 Telekom Austria tend to show the best RTTs.

The Albanian backbone is served by a small number of major carriers. Albtelecom (AS8774) operates the legacy fixed-line infrastructure and holds significant transit market share. IPKO (AS34772) and Digitalb serve the mobile and broadband segments. Keminet (AS197706) competes as a commercial ISP and hosting provider. BGP routing tables for Albanian prefixes are relatively compact, with most originated prefixes falling under a handful of upstream transit providers including GTT (AS3257), Cogent (AS174), and Telia (AS1299).

Albania is an EU candidate country, which has driven investment in infrastructure and regulatory alignment with EU frameworks. Data center market growth has accelerated since 2020, with Tirana seeing new colocation facilities aimed at both domestic demand and regional hosting for Balkan-focused services. Keminet's own data center in Tirana is the primary facility backing our probe node. Connectivity between Tirana and other Balkan capitals — Skopje, Pristina, Podgorica — is generally better than older terrestrial maps would suggest, with direct Balkan transit links maturing over the past five years.

Our probe node runs in Tirana on AS197706 (Keminet SHPK). Results from this node reflect traffic conditions on one of Albania's largest commercial ISPs. For targets primarily accessed by Albanian residential users, results may differ slightly depending on whether the target is reachable via Albtelecom's residential network or through Keminet's commercial routing. Cross-referencing with nodes in Italy (Rome) and Greece gives a useful baseline for verifying whether high latency is Albania-side or origin-side.