Here in Florida our Shaw Direct works well. We don't tell them we are here and we make sure that we don't leave the boxes (which we bring from home) disconnected more than 4 or 5 days before they are reconnected... which keeps them active (so you don't have to have them reactivated by Shaw). As stated above, Bell no longer works here (ask a lot of my neighbours who used to have Bell..) !! My understanding is that Bell only works about 100 miles south of the Can/US border and then it disappears since their new satellite footprint doesn't go any further south.