Magic Jack is magic!

[jme5343]

Mine sucks. I was stoked to get it. My wife kept complaining about it and I wrote it off, but since I've had to use it a few times, it sucks. Oh well, I'm only out $100 or so for 5 years worth. We have Qwest 7Mbps service, so that's not the problem.

TheUnk, you sign up and it assigns you a number. We had to choose a number from a larger city about 45 miles away, but that's no big deal.

 

[QueBert]

Mine sucks. I was stoked to get it. My wife kept complaining about it and I wrote it off, but since I've had to use it a few times, it sucks. Oh well, I'm only out $100 or so for 5 years worth. We have Qwest 7Mbps service, so that's not the problem.

TheUnk, you sign up and it assigns you a number. We had to choose a number from a larger city about 45 miles away, but that's no big deal.

upstream is the most important thing when it comes to VOIP, you could have 512/512kbps and it will work better than 50/20mb (if there was such a thing)

 

[IronWing]

Is Magic Jack some type of hands-free device?

 

[kalrith]

How do you receive calls if you just plug it in and it works? What is your phone #?

You choose a phone number when you first sign up. The MagicJack device plugs into a usb port on a computer, and you plug a phone into it with a normal phone cord. I think there's a short setup process to go through the first time. After that, as long as the PC is on and it has an internet connection, you just use your phone like a normal land line. My PC isn't in the best location for a phone, so I got a 3-cordless-phone set which only requires one phone to be connected to the phone line.

I've heard in the past that MagicJack works best if you can somehow force your router/modem to use a dedicated amount of bandwidth for it. I use it on a 3Mbps down/512Kbps up dryloop DSL, and it works fine most of the time. I've had many hour+ long conversations on it.