Kennett River is famous for one thing: the koalas on Grey River Road. About 74 people live here year-round, across 164 dwellings, which means the village is overwhelmingly holiday houses. And the internet situation is genuinely different from almost everywhere else on our patch.
No fixed nbn. At all.
Every Kennett River address we checked on the nbn rollout data comes back the same way: Sky Muster satellite, or no nbn service at all. No fibre, no copper, no fixed wireless, and none planned. That changes the whole conversation. In most towns we spend the visit working out whether the line or the WiFi is the problem. In Kennett River the first question is which connection you should be on in the first place, and for most properties the honest answer is Starlink.
The catch is the same thing that makes the place famous. The manna gums that feed the koalas also stand between your roof and the satellites. Starlink needs a clear view of the sky, and on a steep, treed Kennett River block, dish placement is most of the job. We check the actual sky view at your property before anyone spends money, and if the answer is that Sky Muster or a 4G setup genuinely suits your usage better, that is the answer you will get. Our Starlink guide for the Geelong region covers what heavy tree cover means for the dish.
Holiday houses that have to work without you.
Most of the WiFi we build out this way is for houses the owner sees a few weekends a year. The setup has to survive months of sitting idle, then perform for a full house of guests, with nobody on site to push a button. So we build for remote visibility: you can see from your phone whether the connection is up, reboot the router without driving 90 minutes of Great Ocean Road, and run a separate guest network that keeps renters away from your own devices.
Worth knowing: mobile coverage in the valley is thin, and the daily tour-bus crowds at the koala walk share the same small cells. “The guests can just use their phones” is not a plan here.
What a visit looks like.
We are about 90 minutes from central Geelong, and Kennett River sits on our regular Great Ocean Road run between Wye River and Apollo Bay. The visit takes around 90 minutes: a proper look at the sky view and mounting options if satellite is on the table, heat maps of the house, real speed tests in every room, and a written report within a day. Plain English, ranked recommendations, and the flat $149 covers the lot, travel included.
What we won’t do.
We will not sell you a mesh kit to fix a satellite problem, and we will not recommend a dish without looking up at your canopy first. If the right call is “keep what you have and move the router”, that is the report you will get. Postcode 3234 and the whole coast road from Lorne through to Apollo Bay is inside our patch, no travel fee.
