{"id":366,"date":"2002-02-25T14:41:55","date_gmt":"2002-02-25T22:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/25\/i-knew-it-wouldnt-all-be-good-news\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:50:15","slug":"i-knew-it-wouldnt-all-be-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/25\/i-knew-it-wouldnt-all-be-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew it wouldn&#8217;t all be good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9041,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.speakeasy.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303200911\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.speakeasy.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 16:44:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 04:28:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 17:31:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 18:10:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 02:16:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 02:16:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9724,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.qwest.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Two big &#8220;ouches&#8221; that may be affecting the site due to my upcoming move &#8212; a $300 fee I hadn&#8217;t expected, and a possible downtime of as much as 2 months (worst case scenario). I was afraid this might happen&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>All that&#8217;s going on is when you sign up for a DSL account with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakeasy.net\/\" title=\"Speakeasy\">Speakeasy<\/a>, you sign on for a 12-month contract. Should you cancel your service within that 12 months, you&#8217;re subject to a $300 cancellation fee. Since the DSL line is hooked up in co-operation with the phone service provider (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwest.com\/\" title=\"Qwest\">Qwest<\/a>, in my case), it can&#8217;t be simply tossed onto another number&#8230;even when changing apartments, it&#8217;s a process of closing one account and opening another. On the bright side, though, if you re-open your account at the new address within 90 days of cancelling your account at the old address, that $300 is refunded. Still, I have to spend it in the first place, which hurts.<\/p>\n<p>The last downside &#8212; because I&#8217;ll be starting the connection process over, my website could be down for as much as close to 2 months. Speakeasy asks to allow up to two weeks for the connection to take place (from placing the order to the signal coming up and online), and they can&#8217;t start the process until after you&#8217;ve had a working phone at the address for a month.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see what I can do with creative juggling to make the transition as easy as possible, though. Melvin just told me I&#8217;ll be able to move into the apartment on March 15th. I&#8217;ll be paid up at my old apartment through the end of March. So, figure I leave my webserver at the old apartment until the very last possible day &#8212; that will have my website up and running through the end of March. If I start my phone service at the new apartment on the 15th of March, then I&#8217;ll be able to place my DSL order on April 15th, and the new DSL line will be up and running by the end of April, with about a month of downtime. If I&#8217;m really lucky, Melvin will allow me to place the order to start phone service to that apartment at the <em>beginning<\/em> of March, before I officially move in, and I&#8217;ll just leave that number unused until I actually start living there mid-March &#8212; if I can do that, then that could move all pertinent reconnect dates up by two weeks, giving me only two weeks of downtime for the website. I&#8217;ll see what I can do.<\/p>\n<p>I should still be able to get online for e-mail and such the entire time, though, as I&#8217;ve got modems in both of my computers now &#8212; so at least I won&#8217;t be going through the same &#8216;net-less existence I was when I first moved into my place.<\/p>\n<p>More updates on all this nonsense will appear as I nail down the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;ll be starting the connection process over, my website could be down for as much as close to 2 months. Speakeasy asks to allow up to two weeks for the connection to take place (from placing the order to the signal coming up and online), and they can&#8217;t start the process until after you&#8217;ve had a working phone at the address for a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}