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mitt
@rogers.com | hmmmmmmmm read your blog, seems like an ad for your current service, does this thing work or not....tim  | |
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Captain Dave
@comcast.net
| Re: hmmmmmmmm Impulseively ordered MagicJack, went online after placcing order and found NUMEROUS complaints, went back to MJ web and could not find a way to cancel order. Then when I got an email asking me to confirm the MJ order, instead, I asked to cancel. To my amazement, my MJ order was cancelled with an email confirming this action. Whew! Dodged that bullet. Morale of this story - cancel when you get the confirmatin email from MJ because that will be the ONLY time you might get your $$$ back. MJ is probably as close to a scam as one can get without actjually losing all one's clothjing. | |
| | | mistah kurtz
join:2008-02-29
| magicjack Had mine for a few months and except for some brief blips in conversation the voice quality is better than my Verizon cell and clearer. I tried disabling on startup and it keeps coming back each time it starts, so forget the msconfig thing. I found a small, cheap powered USB 2.0 hub from ThinkGeek that, as suggested, makes it work better overall.
Get echo sometimes briefly, if it persists, I just call them back, conversations with family last forever with good reception on both ends.. I use a cordless Panasonic 5,8 ghz fone although I doubt that makes any difference. I have had good luck with the Voicemail, so I don't understand people having problems with the device(?) What can I say. | |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | Power and $$$ One of my "24/7" PCs might cost me as much as $2/mo, if that--barely more than a light bulb actually. Of course, it isn't my primary desktop (not anymore, that is--it was back in 2002). | |
| | Lenagainster
join:2005-01-07
Silver Spring, MD
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·magicjack.com
| Re: Power and $$$ Working backwards; at $2 per month and lets say the cost in your area is ten cents per KWH rather than the 14 cents per KWH in the DC area. $2 buys you 20 KWH of electricity. Given that there are (30 X 24) 720 hours in a month, your computer burns 20/720 = .0277778 KW or 28 watts of electricity.
A very efficient computer indeed. Do you have a monitor with that? | |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | Re: Power and $$$ Yeah--an LCD, but it's usually off (obviously); old Celeron with a small, low-wattage PSU; cooling fans typically don't run--not hot enough.
OK, maybe it'll hit $2.50/mo. ;D | |
| | | | Feculent
join:2002-08-09
Rockville, MD | Blh, blah, blah The review that doesn't end.... | |
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scotty34
@suddenlink.net
| Using MagicJack I keep my system on 24/7. The cost is probably $30.00 per month. I come from the old school that says don't turn your equipment off because most failures occur on power up. Oh, I also have a UPS.
Upon installing my MagicJack I made a couple of calls and had no problem. I did notice that on a reboot I had trouble getting my system to come up. After unplugging the MagicJack I had no difficulty.
Here are the idiosyncrasies that I have observed.
1. Does not work with Roxio running. If I have to reboot the first thing I do after the reboot is terminate Roxio. If I have to use Roxio I terminate MagicJack.
2. I had difficulty getting the system to boot up initially after installing MagicJack. I now unplug the device until I have everything up. I then terminate Roxio and plug in MagicJack.
3. With MagicJack running I cannot use a flashdrive. I must terminate MagicJack first.
4. If I start MagicJack first I don't seem to have any errors, but if I bring up a webpage first, at some point MagicJack begins to give me an error.
Even with the idiosyncrasies that I have mentioned I still think it is a bargain. I only use it for outbound calls to family and friends. The voice quality is good and the telephone that my computer is calling through is a cellphone located about 500 miles from me. But that's o.k.
Because I have spare computer parts, I will build a small machine with one disk drive just to handle the MagicJack. That way I won't have to reboot or terminate some program that I might want to keep resident. | |
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decalgal
@comcast.net
|  Voicemail, sound quality issues
As an outgoing only line, for office use when my computer is on anyhow, it is perfect. I have kept my regular local phone service, as well as a low cost long distance service, just in case. Using on XP with cable internet service. | |
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