but to be clear and fair the NBN has no purpose or aim to reduce ping times, hops, latency or magically resolve inter terrerestial bandwidth
its sole purpose is to give people that cant get any decent broadband, standardised high speed broadband
people in warragul, perth, new estates and other random places that arent miles away, but arent CBD and can't get anything over plain jane adsl1 or cant even get ADSL1
the NBN sets out to negate all of that capacity issues with no free ports, cant get ADSL2, can only sync at 4mbps on ADSL2 etc etc
it also sets to standardise the medium and use one single cable for that purpose - a new nice fibre lead instead of 1960s copper
its unlikely to see fibre optic to a property in woop woop but it owuld at least get some form of high speed medium, coax perhaps ?
it has no purpose or aim to reduce ping times, hops, latency etc
latency is a simple mechanics of terrestial links to overseas
and who cares about latency these days? i think its only relevant to games that are sensitive?
most streaming, live web apps etc can work fine on sub 200ms from the US
hops is irrelevant again for most web apps for mums and dads and commercial companies