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I bought the Sprint Overdrive HotSpot in Florida and used it both on the road and parked for three months from the southeast to the far northeast and across to the northwest. It is a combination device and it will service three computers. We never had less than 4 bars and weren't dropped one time. You get 5 gigs of upload/download for $60 per month. The device was free since we're longtime Sprint customers. I don't even try the campground wifi anymore. It's always been much less than satisfactory. Joe Greenwod Yelm, WA

Red light cameras? I love 'em. And the excuses are the same as I used to hear before cameras when I was a Motor Cop on CHP and Las Vegas Metro PD. "I couldn't stop cause the guy behind was tailgating". Lame! Lame! "Honest officer, it was yellow when I entered", "I couldn't stop in time cause my vehicle is too heavy"...well, slow down dummy...., or one of my favorites, "The light was orange, officer". Seriously though, red light runners cause more fatal accidents than any other traffic violator. Danger to red light runners comes from all directions too. Cross traffic is usually not a problem unless it's a very stale red. Traffic signal timing delays are timed to allow for even the runner that misses by several feet. At risk however, is the opposing vehicle that is waiting for oncoming traffic to clear before turning left. If you had seen as many dead and seriously injured people, and of course, kids are the worst, as I have in my 32 years on the job, and that were in no way at fault in an intersection accident, you would give thanks for every method of red light enforcement there is, or will be. Personally my vote would go to a very large steel plate that rose up at the very instant the light turns red. And, to address the issue of a citation for not making it through the intersection on the yellow, it just ain't true. I've never heard of any state that has that law. The rule is that if your front wheels are past the first line of the crosswalk or the painted limit line where there is no crosswalk, you have legally entered the intersection no matter if the light turns red before you clear. Just a rant from an old retired cop.