Just following up... I adjusted my dish last night, so now my signal strength is much better. I had several transponders registering below 60 signal strength, now nothing is below 80. We'll see if this fixes my "rain showers" problem. Also, I have to say, I actually had a pretty good customer service experience today. I have an old R-10 w/TiVo. I see DirecTV has a deal right now for certain customers to upgrade their equipment for free. So I'm thinking of getting an R22 box, for the larger DVR space and access to their OnDemand stuff. Even thou I will loose some very cool TiVo features. So I email my questions and received a very good, well informed, explanation for a change. On top of that, they offered me FREE Showtime for the next 3 months. So...maybe DirecTV isn't all that bad.