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avp0713

@csfb.com

MagicJack used with dialup service?

Without reading the entire MagicJack website I'm hoping for quick direction from MagicJack users; My elderly parents who cannot get broadband service would like to look into getting MagicJack. They only have access to a VERY slow dialup line (14 kps). Will MagicJack be good for them?

ANONYMOUS_COWARD

@ameritech.net

Re: MagicJack used with dialup service?

said by avp0713 :

Without reading the entire MagicJack website I'm hoping for quick direction from MagicJack users; My elderly parents who cannot get broadband service would like to look into getting MagicJack. They only have access to a VERY slow dialup line (14 kps). Will MagicJack be good for them?
Absolutely not

avp0713

@comcast.net

Re: MagicJack used with dialup service?

. . . yeah, immediately after I posted the question I found out through various other forums that although it might "work" it would be sketchy at best.

mod_wastrel

join:2008-03-28
·magicjack.com

On 14.4? No. (I still have some old 14.4 modems--haven't used them in 15 years, except for the occasional FAX.)

Interestingly, the magicJack site says that magicJack-to-magicJack calls *may* work over dial-up, though I'm sure they're talking about 56k. Back in the 90's I actually used VoIP, briefly, with dial-up (just to play around with it). It did work... badly, but it did work. I wouldn't recommend it; when you're thinking VoIP, think broadband.


avp0713

@comcast.net

Re: MagicJack used with dialup service?

Yes, I remember early 90's internet phone, I too dabbled with it and found that it worked, albeit choppy. Upstate NY (mountain regions) don't get DSL or Cable, so my parents are able to use their internet for basically email and long bouts of meditation while watching the CNN page download.
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