In article ,
metspitzer wrote:

I just tried it. You get what you pay for. I will use it for a
couple of weeks and then send it back. $ 7.50 postage down the drain.

It was pretty easy to set up and the first couple of calls were
amazingly clear. I was using a standard phone with no power supply.
The Jack doesn't supply enough power to the phone to light the dial
display.

The last couple of calls I made, I could hear my voice lagging behind
my speaking voice in the phone. I changed to a phone that has a power
supply and cordless. It does the same thing.

Two incoming calls were clear and one was very poor.

The computer I am using is a 1G machine. I ordered a 10 buck USB 2
card so the speed shouldn't be a problem. My Internet connection is
Charter cable and I have a 5M/512k connection.

I do have a 3.2 machine, but I don't leave that machine on 24/7 so
even if it worked better on that machine, I don't think I would keep
it.

Thanks for the follow up. Anytime something (product or service) is
offered at 5% or less of the competitor's price, reports of poor quality
shouldn't be terribly surprising.

I hope you'll let us know how much aggravation you encounter in trying
to return it.

I just tried it. You get what you pay for. I will use it for a
couple of weeks and then send it back. $ 7.50 postage down the drain.

It was pretty easy to set up and the first couple of calls were
amazingly clear. I was using a standard phone with no power supply.
The Jack doesn't supply enough power to the phone to light the dial
display.

The last couple of calls I made, I could hear my voice lagging behind
my speaking voice in the phone. I changed to a phone that has a power
supply and cordless. It does the same thing.

Two incoming calls were clear and one was very poor.

The computer I am using is a 1G machine. I ordered a 10 buck USB 2
card so the speed shouldn't be a problem. My Internet connection is
Charter cable and I have a 5M/512k connection.

I do have a 3.2 machine, but I don't leave that machine on 24/7 so
even if it worked better on that machine, I don't think I would keep
it.

"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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In article ,
metspitzer wrote:

I just tried it. You get what you pay for. I will use it for a
couple of weeks and then send it back. $ 7.50 postage down the drain.

It was pretty easy to set up and the first couple of calls were
amazingly clear. I was using a standard phone with no power supply.
The Jack doesn't supply enough power to the phone to light the dial
display.

The last couple of calls I made, I could hear my voice lagging behind
my speaking voice in the phone. I changed to a phone that has a power
supply and cordless. It does the same thing.

Two incoming calls were clear and one was very poor.

The computer I am using is a 1G machine. I ordered a 10 buck USB 2
card so the speed shouldn't be a problem. My Internet connection is
Charter cable and I have a 5M/512k connection.

I do have a 3.2 machine, but I don't leave that machine on 24/7 so
even if it worked better on that machine, I don't think I would keep
it.

Thanks for the follow up. Anytime something (product or service) is
offered at 5% or less of the competitor's price, reports of poor quality
shouldn't be terribly surprising.

I hope you'll let us know how much aggravation you encounter in trying
to return it.

I had a similar experience as the OP-- pretty slick technology but not quite
ready for prime time. I wouldn't replace my Vonage service with it so I
really don't need it and decided to return the magicJack.

Logged on to the MJ site, found the return button, clicked on it, filled out
a short RMA request form and within a minute or two, their autoresponder
emailed me an RMA with barcode to print out and use for returning it.

I mailed the three ounce package back to them a few days ago with delivery
confirmation and it's still in transit.

So far, no return problems-- but then again, I haven't seen my credit card
bill for this month ;-)

On Aug 1, 6:01*pm, "The Postman" route23@pod wrote:
"Smitty Two" wrote in message

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In article ,
metspitzer wrote:

I just tried it. *You get what you pay for. *I will use it for a
couple of weeks and then send it back. *$ 7.50 postage down the drain.

"terry" wrote in message
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On Aug 1, 6:01 pm, "The Postman" route23@pod wrote:
"Smitty Two" wrote in message

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In article ,
metspitzer wrote:

I just tried it. You get what you pay for. I will use it for a
couple of weeks and then send it back. $ 7.50 postage down the drain.

It was pretty easy to set up and the first couple of calls were
amazingly clear. I was using a standard phone with no power supply.
The Jack doesn't supply enough power to the phone to light the dial
display.

The last couple of calls I made, I could hear my voice lagging behind
my speaking voice in the phone. I changed to a phone that has a power
supply and cordless. It does the same thing.

Two incoming calls were clear and one was very poor.

The computer I am using is a 1G machine. I ordered a 10 buck USB 2
card so the speed shouldn't be a problem. My Internet connection is
Charter cable and I have a 5M/512k connection.

I do have a 3.2 machine, but I don't leave that machine on 24/7 so
even if it worked better on that machine, I don't think I would keep
it.

Thanks for the follow up. Anytime something (product or service) is
offered at 5% or less of the competitor's price, reports of poor quality
shouldn't be terribly surprising.

I hope you'll let us know how much aggravation you encounter in trying
to return it.

I had a similar experience as the OP-- pretty slick technology but not
quite
ready for prime time. I wouldn't replace my Vonage service with it so I
really don't need it and decided to return the magicJack.

Logged on to the MJ site, found the return button, clicked on it, filled
out
a short RMA request form and within a minute or two, their autoresponder
emailed me an RMA with barcode to print out and use for returning it.

I mailed the three ounce package back to them a few days ago with delivery
confirmation and it's still in transit.

So far, no return problems-- but then again, I haven't seen my credit card
bill for this month ;-)- Hide quoted text -

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An associated problem that may have played a part in an unnecessary
death, in Canada, associated with using an internet (VOIP) phone went
something like this.

Family bought and used a VOIP phone service, finding it fully
satisfactory, while living in one province (state).

They then moved to another province (state), lived there for some
time, kept paying and the VOIP phone continued to work via their
internet connected computer as before.

An emergency medical problem with one of their children occurred; so
they dialled 911. The call was answered and an ambulance dispatched to
the last 'registered' address, in the wrong province!

There was no record of a change of address and no procedures to
forward the call to the appropriate 911, if it had been known, or
knowledge of whether that service was available, wherever in the world
it might have been! (It could have been Bangkok, Sumatra, Geelong
Australia or London UK!).

After a considerable delay when no medical help had arrived at the new
address, a neighbour called 911, from their regular local land-line to
ask where was the ambulance? Whereupon the error was discovered.

AIUI the child unfortunately died; whether the delay contributed is
not clear.

Certain internet phone 'providers' have been told to alter their
procedures to eliminate this problem.
However in an emergency I'm not happy that my 911 call may be answered
by some call centre employee in a city of say five million in
Timbucthree who has never even heard of the Canadian province in which
I live (total population 500,000) let alone Canada and whose primary
language is perhaps not same as mine!

I have an immediate neighbour who works as an RCMP dispatcher; now
that's someone who I KNOW, knows this territory, the current
conditions and where everything locally, is!

Imagine calling the 'Police' and getting someone speaking in say Urdu,
or Swahili?


Yeah, well blame the parents, not the phone. Every VOIP phone setup tells
you several times in 20 point bold red typeface to register the location for
911 and to change it when you move the phone device to another location. If
they were too stupid or lazy to do that, consider it Darwin at work.....

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:21:59 -0500, metspitzer
wrote:

I just tried it. You get what you pay for. I will use it for a
couple of weeks and then send it back. $ 7.50 postage down the drain.

It was pretty easy to set up and the first couple of calls were
amazingly clear. I was using a standard phone with no power supply.
The Jack doesn't supply enough power to the phone to light the dial
display.


The Magic Jack I saw didn't have very good instructions, be they
appeared to be sawing you need a full-power USB port.

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