After a few other failed attempts to trace route curtin.edu.au, I had a bit of a think about it and decided that it is possible that because of my firewall it could be blocking the trace. So switched off the firewall, gave it another try and finally it actually worked.
So from my computer it only took 12 hops compared to the 16 from net-tools, I make the assumption this is beacause I am situated closer. I suppose I was expecting a bigger difference between the two amounts, something similar to the difference in the average time. The average was 52 milliseconds, I stated in my previous post that I thought it would be 50 milliseconds, although not the same it was quite close.
