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The financials don't work well for me since I would still need my second phone line and don't have satelliite or cable TV (and don't want it).

How serious is the snow problem? We tend to get a bit from time to time here in Minnesota. 17" in some areas yesterday.

We rarely have snow here in Western Oregon. In the last 5 years we have had snow twice. The last time was about a month ago and we had 10 inches. That really stopped both internet and TV. I took a garden hose and sprayed water on it for a couple minutes and everything was OK. I had to do that twice. The second time there was less than an inch of snow before reception was gone. In Minnesota, I would figure out some kind of roof covering or place the dish under a roof overhang or something.

I agree with you about the TV connection. I don't watch more than an hour or two a week of TV. But I have an 8 year old that does like TV (so did I at that age). With Dishnetwork, there are several all cartoon channels, his favorite being the Cartoon Network that shows the same 30 to 50 year old cartoons that I grew up with. There is a Hallmark channel, Discovery channels, and, of course, Fox News. If an 8 year old kid has to watch TV (and he does have limits) then I am glad that we have the choices that we do.