Waldronville residents need to step up or remain in the digital slow lane.
Digital Office project manager Josh Jenkins said every community he was lobbying for had engaged with those efforts except Waldronville.
''They need to put their best foot forward if they want to be a part of this,'' Mr Jenkins said.
The office - contracted by the Dunedin City Council - was lobbying the Government on behalf of Waldronville, Outram, Waitati and Warrington for the ultrafast broadband (UFB) build and Strath Taieri, Middlemarch and Otago Peninsula for the rural broadband initiative (RBI), a wireless broadband solution.
The next stage of the lobby work included meeting the communities over the next six days to create plans to prove a faster connection would be used, and projects would be focused around it, Mr Jenkins said.
The greater the involvement, the greater the chance the district would receive a better connection, he said.
The engagement levels of Waldronville residents were lagging, he said.
''I don't have any key contact in Waldronville who is willing to put their hand up and drive it for their community.''
At an engagement meeting with Otago Peninsula people last week, ''proactive'' residents discussed ways to benefit from a faster connection, such as providing free Wi-Fi on the peninsula.
Otago Peninsula was ''one of the front-runners'' of the lobbying so far, he said.
Community engagement meetings would be held at the Strath Taieri Community Centre in Middlemarch at noon tomorrow, Memorial Hall in Outram at 6.30pm on Monday and the Island Park Golf Club in Waldronville at 7pm on Tuesday.
Saddle Hill Community Board member Scott Weatherall said he would help the Digital Office engage with Waldronville residents.
''We know engaging with the Waldronville community is challenging,'' Mr Weatherall said.
He urged Waldronville residents to attend the meeting on Tuesday to improve the community's chances of being selected for a faster connection.
''We need the community to show the interest ... We want to see people turn out and support it.''
Communications Minister Amy Adams said in New Zealand at the end of June, 724,000 homes, schools and workplaces were connected to UFB and more than 269,000 rural addresses were able to connect to RBI.
''The UFB build is over the halfway mark and, as the network expands, the rate at which people are signing up for fibre is accelerating. At 14.6%, the uptake rate has quadrupled from what it was two years ago,'' Ms Adams says.
