If you're waiting for NBN in parts of the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury, you'd be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still or at least gone to slow motion as we watch the glacial pace at which NBN is rolling out. In the Lower Blue Mountains most people will eventually get FTTC, but the Hawkesbury is a technological mess, with satellite, wireless, FTTN, FTTC and FTTP for those lucky early receivers.

The boundary problems we're seeing between what NBN will service with fixed line and wireless are exasperating. Some houses will mi