I use a sky+ 160 box in cyprus, 4.2m dish, and get most of the sky channels, BBC ITV etc with very little problems...
Yeah its expensive, and when i return to the uk, i plug my system in to a phone line to register updates etc... it is theoretically piracy, but who is gonna police it...
I pay my subscription
With anything dreambox related, you can have issues with cards going out of date, random sending of new encryption protocols to block the shared cards, cyta taking action to block ports used by the card sharers (why they dont just use port 80 i dont know.lol)
The only 100% safe tv system to use is the one designed for the country you live in... anyting else will always have some "issues"