Magic Jack owners
noel888
morning to a informercial where they promised that one only pays $3.95
per month usage. Just plug any phone into your pc usb port anywhere in
the united states. The show the connection of a landline phone that
has at home those phone cords, but how does one use a cellphone..which
they did not show, but said 'even a cellphone' can be used. Its free
to try for a month. I remember when it first came out, where i read
that there is no phone support.
Metspitzer
wrote:
Yeah, they are too good to be true. You can try one for free, or you
used to be able too. Try one and let us know.
I got some good calls and some bad calls. For the price, I could have
handled missing a couple of outgoing calls. I couldn't accept loosing
any incoming calls. If voice mail worked 100% of the time, I would
have kept mine.
Patricia Martin Steward
wrote:
>Could someone tell me are they too good to be true item?
A simple web search would have revealed that they are, indeed, too
good to be true.
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We are becoming a country that believes the rich have earned their money but the well educated have not
earned their intellectual superiority. This leads to a nation that idolizes Kardashians.
Joel Stein, TIME, 8/23/10
noel888
wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:06:09 -0800 (PST), noel888 <harri85...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Could someone tell me are they too good to be true item?
>
> A simple web search would have revealed that they are, indeed, too
> good to be true.
>
> --
> We are becoming a country that believes the rich have earned their money but the well educated have not
> earned their intellectual superiority. This leads to a nation that idolizes Kardashians.
> Joel Stein, TIME, 8/23/10
well, i did the search first,and apparently i didn't find what you
must have found...give a link if you still have it.
Gordon
898793...@p7g2000prb.googlegroups.com:
I briefly considered the Magic Jack when I switched to VoIP. But
I didn't like the fact that I would have to have a computer running
all the time to use the phone. That was a deal killer. What I
wanted (and what I got) was a VoIP service that used an ATA that
connected my phones directly to my network. I have heard of some
people that have an old laptop dedicated to the Magic Jack.
Type "VoIP Providers" into Google and see what comes up.
FWIW: If you have a Wi-Fi router, you can get wi-fi handsets that are
designed to work with Vonage and Skype. If it's Vonage or Skype
that you want.
The only problem that I have had with my VoIP service is that
sometimes the delay is too long and the echo cancelers can't
handle it. At those times I get complaints of far end echo,
or a phone tree starts responding to it'self.
George
> noel888<harri...@aol.com> wrote in news:8527ced7-b299-4f68-bf2d-
> 898793...@p7g2000prb.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Could someone tell me are they too good to be true item? I woke this
>> morning to a informercial where they promised that one only pays $3.95
>> per month usage. Just plug any phone into your pc usb port anywhere in
>> the united states. The show the connection of a landline phone that
>> has at home those phone cords, but how does one use a cellphone..which
>> they did not show, but said 'even a cellphone' can be used. Its free
>> to try for a month. I remember when it first came out, where i read
>> that there is no phone support.
>
> I briefly considered the Magic Jack when I switched to VoIP. But
> I didn't like the fact that I would have to have a computer running
> all the time to use the phone. That was a deal killer. What I
> wanted (and what I got) was a VoIP service that used an ATA that
> connected my phones directly to my network. I have heard of some
> people that have an old laptop dedicated to the Magic Jack.
>
I did the same thing. I wanted to keep our old house number so I ported
it to a real VoIP provider.
> Type "VoIP Providers" into Google and see what comes up.
>
> FWIW: If you have a Wi-Fi router, you can get wi-fi handsets that are
> designed to work with Vonage and Skype. If it's Vonage or Skype
> that you want.
>
> The only problem that I have had with my VoIP service is that
> sometimes the delay is too long and the echo cancelers can't
> handle it. At those times I get complaints of far end echo,
> or a phone tree starts responding to it'self.
I have to say that our VoIP line works exceptionally well.
Mrs Irish Mike
It's not $3.95 a month, it's $20 a year, or $69 for five years, which
is a little over a buck a month!
I've had MagicJack for more than 2 years now. For twenty bucks a year
you can't beat it. I wouldn't use it as my primary land-line, but for
a second line it works great. I cut my traditional land-line to very
basic local calling and use MJ for long distance and as an extra phone
when the land-line is tied up. Sometimes I have to call back because
the quality is bad. And if you are running too many programs on the
computer the quality does suck. Caller ID and call waiting are good
features that are included. I have never gotten a phone solicitor on
the MJ. Neat thing is it is the size of a gum package, and you can
take it with you and use it as a phone from your lap-top or any other
computer as long as you have internet.
Patricia Martin Steward
wrote:
>> good to be true.
>
>must have found...give a link if you still have it.
That was a long time ago, so I don't have a link -- I just input
"magic jack" into dogpile.com and followed the links that were
discussions about whether it really works.
I just did the same and got the following:
http://magic-jack.pissedconsumer.com/
www.ripoffreport.com/Computer-Fraud/Magic-Jack/magic-jack-warning-dont-buy-in-4cgcb.htm
www.voipreview.org/review/magicjack
A lot of the other links were to various Magic Jack websites or sites
devoted to selling Magic Jack, so they're useless.
I started the same search on Bing, but one of the options that popped
up was "magic jack complaints." That should speak volumes.