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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:52:55 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Magic Jack Customer Service not always accurate.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ :( I am adding this new thread because I received two pieces of misleading information from Magic Jack's Technical Support Personnel. 

First, when I called Magic Jacks technical support department and asked if they had a telephone exchange that would be a local call from 352-589 my local exchange, their Technician told that there was, but would not give me the number of that local exchange. 

Second, Magic Jack literature claims that they never charge a caller to call a Magic Jack. That is correct, what Magic Jack literature fails to mention is that a caller, calling a Magic Jack number that is not within their local calling area, will be charged for a toll call by their local telephone company, unless they are paying for flat rate unlimited long distance service. 

If it were not for the help of RockyBB and N9MD I would have purchased a Magic Jack and been disappointed. 

I want to reiterate. I want a Magic Jack telephone number that is local to my telephone exchange so that I do not have to pay for a toll call when I forward my local telephone number to the Magic Jack Telephone number. 

Magic Jack management should give potential customers access to the list of available telephone exchanges with all area codes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-09-06 10:35:30</pubDate>
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<title>  connect 2 phones to majic jack sharing one line</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a new MAGIC JACK and two phones that I want to share it. One phone  has attached receiver and works well. The other is a range
phone, so i can take it outside, but is not as reliable. Sometime the other 
end can not hear me (even next to computer). So I plug in one or the other as needed. Is there any attachment that would allow me to keep
both phones attached while using only one?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 17:33:49</pubDate>
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<title>Whole house wiring-No problem!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I wired my magicjack into all my standard wall jacks in my home-no problem. Here's what I did.

1- Located the phone service hook-up panel on the outside of my house. You know... the one that your current or old service uses to hook into to the house. I then carefully disconnected the wires that Pac bell/att&t  used to hook into the whole house.

2-Use a two line splitter, you can buy them at Radio shack or Walmart for about $3. Take the phone outlet closest to the magicjack off the wall. Plug the two line splitter into the jack, then plug magicjack into one of the outlets and the phone for that room into the other one. See if you get a dial tone. Pay attention to which colored pair of wires are hooked to the back of this wall phone jack.

3- Go to another room with a differnant jack. Plug a phone into it and see if it gives you a dial tone. If not remove it from the wall. Note which colored wires are hooked up to the back of this standard wall jack. 

4-Go back to the standard outlet jack where you have the two way splitter plugged in. If you don't have a dial tone on this phone, disconnect the wires to the back of jack that you unscrewed from the wall and touch the wires to the differant terminals until you DO get a dial tone. Make sure you can dial out on this phone. Try dailing your cell phone. If it works you are done on this outlet.

5- Go back to the other outlets in your house and see if you are getting a dial tone. If not, make sure the same colored pair of wires are connected to the back of each jack until you do get a dial tone.

7-Set the computer that you have the magicjack plugged into to automatically turn itself on every morning at say... 7AM. Then you will be able to make and receive calls without leaving your computer on all night long. It is done by going into the CMOS setting- look for a "wake up" setting. If you don't know how to do this either refer to your owners manual or Google for "automatic wake up" "computer"

You can always use your cell phone to make or receive calls in the middle of the night if you need to.
  
6-Congratulate yourself. You will have a much more reliable magicjack connection because there won't be the added complication that the cordless phones might introduce....and you can still try the cordless phones if you would like to. My three AT&T 2 line non-cordless wired business style phones (magicjack is on line two) all ring normally with my magicjack. Good stuff]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-27 23:59:03</pubDate>
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<title>Magicjack and laserjet 3015 fax. Fax not working</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23406211</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have lowered the 'define' quality to 'standard' on the fax, I installed a DSL filter to the jack and turned off the 'communication error' on the fax and I still get a communication error when I try to sed a fax. Anyone know how to fix this or is this not going to work?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 11:49:14</pubDate>
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<title>Magicjack on a &#x27;junk&#x27; laptop</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23352155</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a rehash and follow-up to a few posts in this thread: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23350702-Re-magic-jack

I decided to post a new thread to avoid further 'hijacking' of the earlier thread.

I currently have MJ running on a dedicated Dell Dimension 8100 desktop [Win XP SP3 slimmed down a bit, P4 1.5Ghz, 160GB HD, 256MB RDRAM]. MJ is working flawlessly on this machine, but it uses 62 watts 24/7.  Since electricity is rather expensive in CT, I decided I would look into a less power-intensive solution when the opportunity presented itself.

While I was reading accounts of people's experiments with MJ running on Thin Clients, I had an idea: Why not run MJ on a spare or junk laptop? Since laptops are designed to save battery power, they should use considerably less power than a desktop. I decided to try this if I ever came across a suitable laptop.

As luck would have it, a few months ago I was disinfecting a desktop for a customer who mentioned she had a laptop she was going to throw away because the display was broken. Being a sucker for electronic junk, I offered to take it off her hands. It's a Gateway T-1616 with Vista Home Premium, 160GB SATA HD, AMD Turion 64 X2 1.9Ghz, built-in 802.11a/b/g wireless and 1GB of memory with 256MB used by shared graphics [there ought to be a law!].

The LCD has some big dark patches. It looks like it was dropped or handled roughly. I plugged in a spare monitor so I wouldn't have to deal with the mostly-missing upper right-hand corner of the display. Since I only care about looking at Magicjack on the laptop, I don't have to use an external monitor unless I'm deleting software or slimming down Vista. I can see MJ fine on what's left of the LCD. If I really want to see what's on the display without an external monitor, I suppose I could install remote access software.

I got rid of the normal bloatware that came with the laptop [ITunes, some backup software, etc. ad nauseam], got rid of a McAfee trial edition and installed Microsoft Security Essentials. I noticed that Vista was still crawling. With only 768MB of RAM, that wasn't a big surprise. 

Once I'd gotten the laptop to some semblance of usability, I plugged in my spare Magicjack [don't ask :)] and call some test numbers. From the basement on the laptop's built-in WiFi, it sounds fine when the laptop isn't doing anything else.  Some extra RAM and a crash diet for Vista should solve that issue. 

Power consumption was surprisingly high with a discharged battery. Frankly, I think Gateway made a dangerous mistake shipping this machine with a 65-watt adapter, since it draws about 72 watts when booting up and charging a nearly-dead battery. Once the battery is mostly charged, power consumption drops off to 30-50 watts [depending on hard drive/network activity].

I was able to cut this considerably [to about 25-35 watts] by turning off the built-in WiFi and using the wired network. I set the display to shut down after 5 minutes, which saved a bit more power [uses about 18-19 watts when it's idle; 25-30 watts when MJ is in use; MJ doesn't wake the display up if it wasn't minimized before the display shut off].  

Once I get some RAM [I'm upgrading from 1 to 1.5GB; that'll give me 1.25GB of usable RAM since the built-in graphics use 256MB], Vista will perk up a bit and the laptop will be ready for further testing [might take a back seat to turkey dinner late next week, though].]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-17 01:00:42</pubDate>
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<title>MagicJack selling phone usage information?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23196188</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've seen this happen a few times. I call a company (like a muffler shop, for example) and suddenly my Gmail advertisements are tailored to automotive products.

I thought about mentioning this in the past. But, I thought it might sound paranoid.

Today, I received a call from someone in a prisoner work-release center (post-prison, pre-release). An hour or two later I refreshed my gmail screen. The advertisement was:

 quote:Probation Employment Job - Felons.View-Local-Jobs.com - $15-55/Hr Job Offers For Felons. Sign Up & View

I haven't received any calls from that person in 15 months. I haven't made any Google searches regarding prison issues, work release. I receive one call and suddenly Gmail is displaying tailored ads regarding that call.

Thoughts?

Mark ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-16 17:54:26</pubDate>
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<title>[General] Calls to Philippines</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23403517</link>
<description><![CDATA[Will a MJ be able to call cell or home phones in the Philippines
and if so how do you do it or is there a cost.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-27 16:42:35</pubDate>
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<title>Magic Jack thin client users.......</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ok I have my magic jack on a 1.2 GHZ 1 gig flash and 1 gig ram thin client.

I periodically reboot it just to refresh it and such, but I forget to do it for long pieriods of time.

I did a search and did not find anything really, what I want to find some thing freeware that I could set up a schedule to reboot, say 3 Am every 2 weeks or something like that.

any ideas anyone?

Thanks
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<pubDate>2009-11-23 13:35:25</pubDate>
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<title>Skype Dual Mode Calling Available For magicJack</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23183022</link>
<description><![CDATA[We are posting this message to announce the release of our new Skype dual mode calling software plugin "SkyjackPlugin" for magicJack users. 

To place Skype calls just dial * before the number you want to call. Speed dial numbers are available for dialing other Skype users. Regular magicJack calls are placed as normal. For incoming calls, just answer the phone when it rings.  

You can check it out and try it free at http://www.pcphonesoft.com]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-14 14:45:14</pubDate>
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<title>Magic Jack on sale</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23396631</link>
<description><![CDATA[The softphone is pushing an ad for Magic Jacks selling at $29.95 plus free "rush" shipping.  It says "One Day Only Black Friday Sale," but obviously the prices are already in effect.

Sadly, the 5 year extension price has jumped by $10.00 up to $69.95.

Order through the my.magicjack portal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-25 20:10:47</pubDate>
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