IN 2012 Tomerong resident Attila Kaszo went public about his slow Telstra wireless broadband internet speeds.
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Three years later, despite buying the equipment Telstra suggested his situation is no better.
“I think something has changed in the past few weeks because now I’m getting an SOS signal on my mobile phone inside the house where I used to get mobile coverage” he said.
“I pay everything I’m supposed to pay and I have all the latest gizmos including an aerial Telstra suggested I install on my roof.
“My upload speed is as slow as 4.4 kilobytes per second.”
Mr Kaszo is a photographer and cinematographer who treats his Tomerong home as his base, an office to send out the images he shoots from around the world.
“I’m working with the BBC and trying to send them images. One lot was going to take 16 hours to upload.
“I have been suffering with this for years. The bottom line is we have all these politicians raving about the National Broadband Network which is great for big cities but what happens to people like me?
“I’m only 20 minutes from the Nowra CBD and we can’t even get the basics right.
“Telstra has a monopoly and it just seems to do whatever it wants, but this must be happening to other people too,” he said.
Other Shoahlaven residents are struggling with slow internet speeds.
To confirm if Mr Kaszo was alone or not we put a callout on Facebook and got these replies.
Leanne Yeomans said, “Yes! Can completely relate to this article and how frustrating it is being stuck with slow internet. NBN told me I can expect to wait 10 years until rollout in my area.”
Julie Baldock of Bomaderry said, “We can’t even get the internet and the NBN is by passing us also.”
Bettina Slade said, “I can relate to this too it’s very frustrating I’m getting 0.80 download and 0.10 upload speed here in East Nowra.
Ross Deutschbein said, “I have 6.8 download and .33 upload and that is usual here in Old Erowal Bay.”
Kelly Morgan said, “We are at Coolangatta NSW only getting 4.3 at the moment, it’s been dropping in and out for weeks it’s so frustrating because we did have it fixed at the end of last year and we were getting 10.”
A Telstra representative was looking into Mr Kaszo’s internet concerns.