OK guys with the dish I have a question. What if you put a black trash bag over the dish? Will you still get a signal? Will the snow not accumulate and just slide off?

I have had to reboot my modem twice a day when they "upgraded" me for free plus $12 a month from 6mbps to 12. I had them out 3 times and everytime it nothing got done right but each person did it differently. I got some nice discounts for their incompetence and being late. But they sheilded the signal pretty much to keep out cross talk and alien cross talk. Rechecked all the line connections going to the pole. For a while I was testing out at 15mbps dl and 8-10 upload then 12 DL which is all they promised with 2 mbps upload. Something was wrong and the last time they did something right and wrong because now I get 23 mbps DL and 4 mbs upload. I was happy the first time with the first results except the modem needed to be reset twice a day and I had to go down stairs to the back office to get to it. Not happy with that. But now its reliable although something is keeping the upload speed down. In reality just knock a zero off the end of the advertised speed to find out what your real speed is. 4 mbps = 400 kbps 22 mbps = 2.2 mbps...