ransley wrote:
On Aug 14, 8:47 pm, wrote:
MagicJack suggests on their FAQ's that to save power you can
turn your monitor off and shut the hard drive down within the
control panel of your computer. I believe they are suggesting
the standby mode even though they don't say "standby"

Any ways my question is this. Instead of shutting the computer down
it would be nice to put the computer in standby during the night so
that calls could still be answered. However on my computer as long as
the USB MagicJack is plugged into the computer the computer refuses
to go into standby. Can you put your MagicJack equipped computer into
standby, or is it just me that can't?

I wonder if what you save in your phone bill isnt negated by computer
electric consumption, 100w, 24 x 7 x 30 = $15 a month for me.
Computers consume 100 to maybe 500w, think about that, my landline is
cheaper I figured and my computer will last longer. Standby mode would
help alot.

Alternatively, you don't need a computer for something like Vonage (if
you're already paying for high-speed internet). Some amount per month
($19.95) and you get a real telephone number (you get to pick your area
code*) and all the bells and whistles: caller-id, call waiting, voice mail,
3-way calling, call forwarding, yak-yak-yak, plus all the long distance you
can eat.

This $19.95/month is it. No sales tax, Spanish-American War tax, Al Gore
tax, universal access fee, 911 connection fee, fuel surcharge, physical
plant recovery fee, whatever. $19.95 per month, period.

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* This comes in hand if all your relatives are in, say, Boston. You can get
617 area code and, when they call you, it's a local call. Or, if you live in
Dead Rabbit, Oklahoma and want all your customers to think you're high-tech,
you can get a Palo Alto, California area code.