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Magic Jack Phone

Magic Jack is not a phone, it is a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) phone service. VOIP is also referred to as IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband, broadband telephony, and broadband phone. When you buy the service, you receive a special USB device to plug into a USB port on your computer that optimizes voice transmission through the internet. When first plugged in, it will download software so that your computer is ready for you to start making free local and long distance calls using your high-speed internet connection. You must have DSL, broadband, cable internet, wirelss, WiMax or FIOS to use Magic Jack, as it is not configured to work with dial-up internet connections.

The great thing about Magic Jack Internet Phone is that you can use any regular land-line phone for making your calls. No worries about buying headsets or wondering if your computer sound is good enough. The sound on my computer totally sucks, I bought a cheap laptop when my old computer died on me suddenly and I needed a new computer NOW. So if I have good sound quality on my computer, you should have it on yours also. Your computer is just a conduit for the phone service line.

Any landline phone will do as long as it is a single-line phone. You may use a cordless telephone or one with a cord. Currently, I use a phone with an answering machine but I don’t need to use the answering machine part as the free voice mail you get with Magic Jack works very well. It will even send you an email when you have a new voice mail message. But I did check and if you prefer to use a phone with an answering machine, you may do so. A phone with a caller ID display will also work with your Magic Jack service.

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6 Responses to “Magic Jack Phone”

  1. mike on July 6th, 2008 12:56 am

    how can i contect you by phone

  2. admin on July 6th, 2008 12:25 pm

    The Magic Jack company does not have a phone number (how weird is that?). The only way to contact them is through their customer chat here:

    http://www.magicjack.com/4/customercare.asp

    I do not list my phone number, as this is only a review site for magicjack and is not in any way affiliated with magic jack.

  3. Hopeton Hague on July 29th, 2008 4:42 am

    I live in Canada and I make alot of long distance calls to Land Line to Jamaica West Indes. How would the Magic Jack Phone works for me . Do I need to get the International Package?. How does this work and what are the costs associatedc with it. Thanks.
    Hopeton Hague

  4. LAUZIER Alexandre on August 4th, 2008 12:42 am

    I’m an Haiti,I want to buy a Magic Jack, I need the price and I want to know how the system using

  5. Vincent on August 26th, 2008 4:16 am

    Lets get a little real here. What can you expect for $20 a year? Well I have a router on my network and the calls all had a lag of one second. So i replaced my old router with a newer one with QOS and it helped but not that much. I then bought a device called a Hawking Broadband Booster HBB1 and enabled it and the routers (Linksys) QOS and thew lag is gone. the Hawking device is a lag illiminator. Now the magic jack is like a real phone service. Before this. it kinda sucked. Oh and I had to disable the windows QOS in the network settings. So in conclusion my system is 6 years old, with a router linksys BFSR41 ver.4.3 and a Hawking Broadband Booster HBB1 connected to a Magic Jack and it work great now. The Hawkings Broadband Booster HBB1 made all the difference.

  6. admin on August 26th, 2008 4:43 pm

    Thanks for the great advice Vincent. Not all problems one has with the Magic Jack are the fault of the device, people need to investigate their own computer first before complaining that the MJ is no good.

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