We've had DirectTV with Tivo since around 97 or 98 I guess. We've never had any problems - and our customer service has been excellent (especially with Tivo). We don't have a lot of heavy weather here though - It can cut out momentarily if a big strong rain or snow storm rolls through (this has only happened once the whole time we've had ours - but we *rarely* get thunderstorms). We did have to brush our dish off a couple of times the one year it snowed a whole lot.