We have had DirecTV since just before Wes was born. I love it. Good channels..good reception..we've only had one problem with it but it was a hardware issue (my throwing a shoe into the shoe pile by the door and it loosened the cable) .. and we figured that out on our own. We haven't had a lot of problems with it going out in bad weather. I'd say in almost 3 years of service we've had maybe 4 outages..only one of them lasted more than a few minutes. Then again we live out in the country and there's lots of free sky.