Jeanette and Paul Burgess from Havelock Place will be connected tomorrow (Thursday) with the help of a trouble-shooter after technicians encountered teething problems yesterday.

“These things happen when you’re at the forefront of technology,” Mrs Burgess said.

“I used to work in testing so I know how it feels.”

When the house is connected, Mr and Mrs Burgess will receive 100 megabits a second free of charge until October 1 - as part of the technology, they will try an internet phone that makes calls at a quarter of the current landline call price.

“After that point, we’ll drop down to 25 megabits per second, but my son who works in IT said a room full of IT students only need 60 megabits per second so it will still be really fast,” Mr Burgess said.

The Burgess’ internet provider iiNet originally turned them down when it was calling for volunteers to trial the connection, saying it already had enough people, but a nomination from Kiama Council’s economic development manager got their foot in the door.

Mrs Burgess said they were nominated because she runs a home training business.

“We were one of the last to have it connected right to the house – that happened a fortnight ago, so to get to where we are now, it’s happened so quickly,” she said.

“At the moment I have to travel as far as Bega, so to service those clients online and having online training is something I’m looking forward to.”

Also looking forward to being connected was Paul Gosney from Minnamurra – the new technology was one of the deciding factors the photographer and his partner Sophie Turner considered when moving to the area.

“The NBN and being within an hour and a half from Sydney is a good combination,” he said.

“It means I can shoot in Sydney, come back home and send the files overseas.”

Mr Gosney said he wanted to free his workload shooting home interiors and band album covers to spend more time marketing and playing with his children.

He said the ability to transfer large files would enable him to send photographs to India for post-production and he would consider expanding his business into training.

Mr Gosney expected to be connected to the NBN with Internode within the next

few days.