With dish you can have one account,(1payment), dish installed at both places. Take dvr back and forth just tell dish where your at and they will turn on locals for that area. Doesn't work we'll for weekenders but for snowbirds staying a while it work well. Previous post is correct most locals are spot beamed appx 150 mile window. And the hopper system is better than DTVs genie. And for no extra fees you can watch any live tv or recordings anywhere with a broadband connection.