A Western Australian farmer determined to improve his connectivity has developed a system to improve his mobile phone coverage, internet access and download speeds.

Darrin Lee from Mingenew, about 120 kilometres south-east of Geraldton has been working on the Digital Agriculture Program (DAP) over the past few years.

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In simple terms, it is an on-farm wi-fi network.

Mr Lee said he had teamed up with local farmers, farm groups and Annie Brox, from operations support systems company Origo, to develop the project and set up a demonstration farm.

"In a nutshell, we're going to basically put up three towers on the farm, one at home, one in the middle of the farm and one at the very high point of the farm," Mr Lee explained.

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"We'll have coverage right across 17,000 acres at any given point anywhere on the farm.

"We need upload speed and we need download speed and depending on different sensors, they might only have to transmit one signal per day, depending on what its workload is or what it is trying to record.

"So, we'll have a main server in the office at home and we'll also have a server in the ute, servers in the sprayers, servers in the tractors and servers in the harvesters and we'll basically have a radio network right across the farm."

"As quick as you can click your fingers, we'll be able to transfer information and that's the biggest problem we have at the moment with connectivity.

"It's the download and upload speed, so I've sort of circumvented that and built our own network."

Mr Lee said he could not afford to sit back and wait to see if his farm would get coverage through the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout.

"I think if we're going to wait for government or for it to just happen and be delivered, we're going to be waiting for a long time," he said.