Getting Ready to Move
Aug. 19th, 2022 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogIt finally looks like buying the condo is a done deal. We close on the 26th, and I'm preparing for the move.
I'm going to rent a truck, borrow a hand truck from a local person on the trans Discord, and do the moving myself.
Miriam is concerned about my ability to manage this on my own, and to be honest I've been a little concerned too and have done some thinking about it. But I also feel like it's safer to do it myself and keep minimizing Covid exposure. And save money too. I can't think of anything we have that won't come apart into bite-sized pieces to wheel out with a hand truck. It just might take a while.
I'm definitely going to buy the mover some pizza.
We have two options for internet: Access and Sasktel. Sasktel has a fiber-to-the-home option that has *vastly* better upload speeds, but though their site says it will be in our area in 2022 it's not available at our address yet. The condo board minutes actually mention contacting Sasktel to ask about the status, but it's not yet an option.
To get decent pricing, we need to buy in to a 2-year contract, and speeds for equivalently priced 2 year contracts are vastly better with Access, until fiber becomes an option. It would be nice to sign up with Sasktel and just wait for fiber on the assumption they'll let us change services under contract, but they offer 50 down and 10 up for $70/month, whereas Access offers 175 down and 10 up for $60.
The fiber-to-the-home option is 150 down and 75 up for $65/month. But again, that's not an option. So we're going to go with the option from Access and just live with the low upload speed for 2 years. It probably won't make much of a difference for our purposes anyway.
I'm going to rent a truck, borrow a hand truck from a local person on the trans Discord, and do the moving myself.
Miriam is concerned about my ability to manage this on my own, and to be honest I've been a little concerned too and have done some thinking about it. But I also feel like it's safer to do it myself and keep minimizing Covid exposure. And save money too. I can't think of anything we have that won't come apart into bite-sized pieces to wheel out with a hand truck. It just might take a while.
I'm definitely going to buy the mover some pizza.
We have two options for internet: Access and Sasktel. Sasktel has a fiber-to-the-home option that has *vastly* better upload speeds, but though their site says it will be in our area in 2022 it's not available at our address yet. The condo board minutes actually mention contacting Sasktel to ask about the status, but it's not yet an option.
To get decent pricing, we need to buy in to a 2-year contract, and speeds for equivalently priced 2 year contracts are vastly better with Access, until fiber becomes an option. It would be nice to sign up with Sasktel and just wait for fiber on the assumption they'll let us change services under contract, but they offer 50 down and 10 up for $70/month, whereas Access offers 175 down and 10 up for $60.
The fiber-to-the-home option is 150 down and 75 up for $65/month. But again, that's not an option. So we're going to go with the option from Access and just live with the low upload speed for 2 years. It probably won't make much of a difference for our purposes anyway.
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Date: 2022-08-20 09:34 am (UTC)I still wake up sweating six years on! :o)
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Date: 2022-08-20 04:15 pm (UTC)I guess it's good that most of my stuff is still with my parents?