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IUseMJ
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Re: Has anyone tried Magicjack with Wildblue?
I'll answer your question without all the crap. MagicJack is a product designed to work with broadband Internet. Sure, it's ad supported. That part is true. I have one myself that I use on cable Internet, but am yet to see a single ad. Even if they do ads, they're confined to a window on their soft phone you never have to see if you don't want. The main problem with MagicJack is it does have a number of dedicated detractors who love to talk out of the top of their head to save the trouble of trying something new. I was a skeptic, but I tried it given that every phone call in Alaska is long distance. I must say, I'm both surprised and impressed because the little dangle paid for itself the first month I owned it. For anyone who doubts me, check my ISP and you will see I am a true Alaskan who lives on the fringe of the planet and not a salesman.
As for the satellite question, I used satellite for a number of years before I moved to where cable Internet is available. I can safely say that MagicJack more than likely will not work well with satellite for two reasons. First, you need about 90-100 K both directions to make it work correctly. Also, the latency will kill the quality of your phone call. I simply don't recommend it for satellite, but would consider it for EVDO, WISP, DSL, or Cable simply because their latency and speed are much better equipped to handle VOIP bandwidth demands. | |
alhanson
join:2006-01-29
Barneveld, WI
| Magicjack installs a back door on you computer. A back door is a two way street. Then Magicjack install their ad ware on your computer. It collects your personal and private information, about what you do, where you go, and other information about you. Then it sends this information to Magicjack and they sell it to third parities, or who ever they can get to buy it. This is how they make there money. I do not know how to make this any clearer. It not the incoming that’s the problem it is the out going you don’t see. The ad ware is always calling home. The up link on the satellite is the most vulnerable and is going to slow you down if it is always spitting updates out every time you turn around.
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IUseMJ
@gci.net
| MagicJack operates off of the Microsoft Telnet protocol, which is the same protocol used by netmeeting and Microsoft Office. I had a devil of a time closing it, but not because of Magic Jack. Microsoft Office kept it open. Once I took out my firewall exceptions for Office, the port returned to stealth.
Trust me, I've heard all of the alarms. Yes, MagicJack is supposed to operate off of an ad based business model, but then so does Google and many other programs we use every day. MagicJack is no safer and no more problematic than any other program and certainly is not as dangerous as tracking cookies and web beacons we encounter everyday while we surf the Internet. | |
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