On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 12:28:00PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi Len, Your wisdom here brings up a slightly different question then. for those who want to giggle a bit, I am sincere that everything for me is wired. I imagine in this case I end up with more than one modem in my house, and understand this may be very smart indeed. That my television can operate apart from what my personal Internet is doing. So, two questions. First, is this common?
At my previous house I had VDSL for internet and rogers cable for TV. Different connections from different companies. Nothing special required for it to work.
Second, are there tools, equipment that make this set up work more efficiently?
It should not require anything special. If the internet connection uses cable lines from rogers (or fiber if you somehow are in one of the areas rogers has fiber now), goes to a router provided by the ISP, and you plug your stuff into the network ports on it and it should just work. For the TV it should be connected however Bell does their connections these days. I haven't dealt with Bell TV stuff myself in years so I suspect it is different than what I remember.
As for the move, well yes and it depends. One personal frustration has been the hunting process itself, sites that are not accessible, experiencing over and over again the stereotype screening. Those experiencing disabilities, speaking personally, face far more challenges around what others believe that means, then the disability experience on its own. My idea of a desired layout often differs from others.. I am not fond of wide open empty spaces for example. Do not get me started on real estate agents, ending up underground and so forth.
I have noticed that houses for sale (and I imagine for rent is similar) do not list accessibility features (or lack thereof) at all. Having sold a house in the last year, I know the forms actually have places to list such things, but it seems no one ever does, and the listings certainly never reflect it. And trying to find an agent willing to find places with such features seems impossible. All they ever seem to care about is your budget. In our case we were looking for a place where my inlaws could potentially move in with us, which requires that it be possible to use a wheelchair in the house. We ended up buying a new build from a builder that offered an elevator as an option and then getting a few things customized to make it more wheelchair accessible.
at the end of the day though? its 4 walls a sealing and a floor that does not move. If my wishes are respected, and I have solid landmarks, it ends up fine. Besides opening all the boxes I just packed can feel a bit like Christmas. as in wow where did that come from!
Yes unpacking can be fun. And a lot of work depending on the number of boxes and how well organized it was when getting packed. -- Len Sorensen