i have dish and have not had a problem but i live in the city with mild weather conditions. My dad however lives in the mountains and he sometimes loses signal but not for more than an hour. I also have a netflix account cause there never any good movies on dish but i keep it for things like the speed channel and all the espn channels. we could just order movies off of dish but we dont have a phone line so my roomates decided to get netflix. if you only watch movies i would say go with netflix but if you like to watch the news or sports i would just get the lowest package that dish has i think it is only like 40 bucks. Good luck