Chief executive Tony Doyle said council wanted the government and broadband company NBN Co to accelerate the roll-out to Nhill and Dimboola in particular.

He said council had collected several case studies to  highlight to the governments how a lack of reliable high speed internet was affecting the shire.

Mr Doyle said internet in the shire was not just slow, but unreliable.

‘‘You talk to people outside the community about bandwidth and they just think it’s a little slower when most afternoons it doesn’t work at all,’’ he said.

‘‘People are coming into work at 10 or 11 at night as it’s the only time it will work.

‘‘We need to lobby hard on this front.’’

Mr Doyle said council had done as much as it could to stress the importance of an improved internet service to the area.

He said it was frustrating to have no indication when Hindmarsh towns such as Nhill would receive the technology.

A new NBN rollout plan was announced in December last year.

Construction work to connect Dimboola and surrounds to the National Broadband Network is scheduled to start in the next few weeks.

An NBN Co spokesman said it took about 12 months from the start of construction until residences and businesses could order and connect to a service.

The company has given no indication when Nhill will receive the technology.

The spokesman said there were factors that determined the order in which areas received the rollout.

‘‘While we would like to connect everyone at the same time, the network must be built in an efficient, systematic manner, which is based on a number of engineering and design principles,’’ he said.

NBN Co’s goal is to have the majority of Australia connected to the broadband network by 2020.