Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:56:49 -0500, Terry
wrote:

http://magicjack.com/site/index.html

After seeing the link Mark Loyd posted, I think I am going to buy one
of these at Best Buy tomorrow.

I was also thinking outloud how I might get this thing to work
without rewiring my phones.

I have a phone jack at my computer that used to be use for dialup. I
can plug the (modem?) (interface?) in the phone jack. I can then go
outside and unplug the phone at the phone company's box. This would
have all the phones the house wired to the interface.

Would it work? I will let you know tomorrow.


I don't see why not, unless the Magic Jack doesn't supply enough
ringer current. However that shouldn't be a problem with newer
electronic phones.


Looks like it's a VoIP phone for outgoing calls. To get a POTS number, well,
you'll have to go with a more robust provider.

We have two VoIP lines here (from Vonage, but others work the same way) and
couldn't be happier.