New Dish User, Hopper/Joey setup, concerned about signal strength?

[riekl]

Brand new Dish user, I had DTV about 8 years ago and I remember my sat's being in the 90's for signal strength.

As i look on the dish point screen on my hopper i am seeing a lot of 50's 70's , and not much higher then that. What is a 'good' signal ? Am i likely to have more rain/snow issues with signals like this? On the health screen it shows all 3 sats as 'green' but I am still concerned ?

 

[MattG@DISH]

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-forum/256056-list-minimum-average-thresholds.html

The chart in the first post has a list of signal averages by DMA.

50s and 70s is probably normal for your area.

 

[Bobby]

Dish and Direct have different signal scales. What you are seeing is going to be just fine.