Help get better Internet for Lake MacDonald and Forest Acres Drive residents
22 Comments
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Jenny Walsh and Lesley Hammond
10 years ago
We aren't likely to get here for over a year. In the meantime the Telstra reception is appalling and totally unreliable. We are trying to run a business from our home. It is an international business and we deal extensively with China. It makes us look like the poor cousins in the world of telecommunications! The nature of our work is very much involved with innovation. It makes the government's policy on this a joke - we don't even have a reliable telephone system, how can we ever present ourselves as an innovative nation!
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Mary Hill
10 years ago
I would love to be able to skype my grand daughter at lake MacDonald without all the drop outs and frozen pictures.
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Chris Kennedy
10 years ago
I work from home and we would love to be able to use the internet when we want to, not just when it works. We pay for it, but don't get the service.
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Joanne Hill
10 years ago
Desperately need internet that doesn't keep dropping out. Working from home.
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DON BRIGGS
10 years ago
We don't have a television signal either we have a signal from a Satalite and TV comes from Alice Springs we also don't have mobile signal
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DON BRIGGS
10 years ago
One day sooooooon!
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Jamie Whiteway
10 years ago
internet at Lake MacDonald is poor, every time it rains, the internet speed gets considerably slower.
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Brian Hallett
10 years ago
Getting sick of poor phone service and poorer wireless broadband. Time it was upgraded.
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Andre Smit
10 years ago
Living in Lake Macdonald with weak Telsra mobile phone signal
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arthur and pam ewart
10 years ago
Appalling internet here, goes on and off, way better when we lived north of Yeppoon in the country. Phones fail too, No excuse when we are so close to Brisbane.
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David Craig
10 years ago
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As a website designer, I am online all day long from home in Forest Acres. I have complained many times about the poor Internet services here, and there have even been times I have resorted to going into the Cooroy library to get some work done. It is no wonder Australia lags the world in Internet speeds.
Remote working is going to become more and more commonplace, and necessary in the years ahead, but without decent Internet infrastructure this can't happen.
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David Kempthorne
10 years ago
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When I am at work in Noosa Junction I am able to access speeds of 17-20 Mb/sec. At my home in Forest Acres the maximum I can achieve is 1.2
Mb/sec !!!
I attempt to work from home on Cloud based applications, but it is near impossible. I have tried to upload a medical report 3 times tonight and on each occasion the link has timed out, the report has been lost and I have had to start again - I have given up until I get to work next week.
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Sacha de Wit
10 years ago
Please, please, please we need better internet speed!
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Jacklyn Nailon
10 years ago
Our BigPond internet frequently disconnects and we lose service every time we get heavy rain when the Telstra pits fill with water. I agree with Peter Lyle. I am concerned for the local businesses in the Forest Acres area who are being disadvantaged by lack of an acceptable internet service. We all deserve a better service than is being provided.
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Anneke Cook
10 years ago
The internet connection in our Forest Acres / Lake Macdonald area is extremely poor. (I'm signing this petition from the Netherlands, as I'm on holidays.)
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Jennifer Sadler
10 years ago
It's a disgrace that the NBN won't cover our area and that Telstra refuses to improve their service.
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Peter Lyle
10 years ago
I am concerned for the local businesses in the Forest Acres area who are being disadvantaged by lack of an acceptable internet service. We all deserve a better service than is being provided.
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Robyn kildey
10 years ago
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I manage a global medical software business which requires me to provide online and telephone support to my clients around the world. The slowness of the speed and the packet loss often make this impossible. I often have to resort to driving into Koroit to a friend's office to get a good enough connection, but this is not very feasible at 6am. I also bring software developers up frequently so we can work together and we often grind to a halt while we sit staring at a screen waiting for files to be uploaded.
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Jenny Walsh and Lesley Hammond
10 years ago
We are running a digital international business based in Lake MacDonald and the internet performance is appalling and a threat to the survival of our company.
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Kathryn Leitch
10 years ago
We have been after better and quicker internet for years now , have been told there are no ADSL 2 lines available .
Well , we want it and please can we get it !!!!!
We aren't likely to get here for over a year. In the meantime the Telstra reception is appalling and totally unreliable. We are trying to run a business from our home. It is an international business and we deal extensively with China. It makes us look like the poor cousins in the world of telecommunications! The nature of our work is very much involved with innovation. It makes the government's policy on this a joke - we don't even have a reliable telephone system, how can we ever present ourselves as an innovative nation!
I would love to be able to skype my grand daughter at lake MacDonald without all the drop outs and frozen pictures.
I work from home and we would love to be able to use the internet when we want to, not just when it works. We pay for it, but don't get the service.
Desperately need internet that doesn't keep dropping out. Working from home.
We don't have a television signal either we have a signal from a Satalite and TV comes from Alice Springs we also don't have mobile signal
One day sooooooon!
internet at Lake MacDonald is poor, every time it rains, the internet speed gets considerably slower.
Getting sick of poor phone service and poorer wireless broadband. Time it was upgraded.
Living in Lake Macdonald with weak Telsra mobile phone signal
Appalling internet here, goes on and off, way better when we lived north of Yeppoon in the country. Phones fail too, No excuse when we are so close to Brisbane.
As a website designer, I am online all day long from home in Forest Acres. I have complained many times about the poor Internet services here, and there have even been times I have resorted to going into the Cooroy library to get some work done. It is no wonder Australia lags the world in Internet speeds. Remote working is going to become more and more commonplace, and necessary in the years ahead, but without decent Internet infrastructure this can't happen.
When I am at work in Noosa Junction I am able to access speeds of 17-20 Mb/sec. At my home in Forest Acres the maximum I can achieve is 1.2 Mb/sec !!! I attempt to work from home on Cloud based applications, but it is near impossible. I have tried to upload a medical report 3 times tonight and on each occasion the link has timed out, the report has been lost and I have had to start again - I have given up until I get to work next week.
Please, please, please we need better internet speed!
Our BigPond internet frequently disconnects and we lose service every time we get heavy rain when the Telstra pits fill with water. I agree with Peter Lyle. I am concerned for the local businesses in the Forest Acres area who are being disadvantaged by lack of an acceptable internet service. We all deserve a better service than is being provided.
The internet connection in our Forest Acres / Lake Macdonald area is extremely poor. (I'm signing this petition from the Netherlands, as I'm on holidays.)
It's a disgrace that the NBN won't cover our area and that Telstra refuses to improve their service.
I am concerned for the local businesses in the Forest Acres area who are being disadvantaged by lack of an acceptable internet service. We all deserve a better service than is being provided.
I manage a global medical software business which requires me to provide online and telephone support to my clients around the world. The slowness of the speed and the packet loss often make this impossible. I often have to resort to driving into Koroit to a friend's office to get a good enough connection, but this is not very feasible at 6am. I also bring software developers up frequently so we can work together and we often grind to a halt while we sit staring at a screen waiting for files to be uploaded.
We are running a digital international business based in Lake MacDonald and the internet performance is appalling and a threat to the survival of our company.
We have been after better and quicker internet for years now , have been told there are no ADSL 2 lines available . Well , we want it and please can we get it !!!!!