magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

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Call me to help me test mine.

(315)573-7120

Thanks,

David

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does anyone make a computer without anything but the basics that the magicjack needs to operate.
it doesnt need a hd or video catd or almost anything..

ALL I NEED IS A PROCESSOR AND SHARED MEMORY AN USB PORT

ANY IDEAS???

I THINK THA MAGIC JACK COULD SELL ONE FOR 50 BUCKS

If you feel ...

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is it possible to put magic jack on usb stick
Can I put it on a usb stick and use it on any pc with a high speed connection if so what files do I need to copy;?

thanx in advance

...and you expect us to believe you graduated from A+, Net+, Security+, MCP, MCSA, MCSE school ?? Must be a different ...

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Had an old version 1.0 WRT54GS router, ditched it....installed version 6.0 WRT54G, firmware Rev. 1.02.5 this seems to have fixed it... MJ seems very demanding on routers.......................ok then. PLEASE ADVISE ME IF THIS CURRENT ROUTER SETUP SEEMS TROUBLE FREE FOR MJ! COMMENTS WELCOMED.

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http://www.phoneservicesupport.com/post29346.html#29346

Versions of WRT54G above Ver.5 can only have DD-WRT "Micro". It is a tricky flash because the VxWorks killer and MAC address has to be carefully dealt with.

WRT54G with no version number on the belly sticker usually means it is a ...

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Thanks guys,

I did the drive format, unplug, replug, which still didn't work. online chat support had me try that earlier as well. No dice.

I had been considering tomato or DD-WRT (tomato looked most interesting), but before going down that road, I did a test...

I went wired direct to my cable ...

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Im looking to buy a powered USB hub (a cheap one if possible) just to attach the MJ to a laptop. I dont need one with lots of ports or any fancy features. Anyone have recommedations on ones that have proven to work and those to avoid??
Thanks for any advice.

Cheap USB hub info:

http://www ...

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However, having said that, I may still fire up a port monitor utility and try to narrow it down at some point.

It would be interesting to discover why the Semantic security device requires open ports when MagicJack doesn't try to open any ports on the firewall .

I don't know if you have a ...

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Msiam, thank you for your help.

I shutdown my PC. I powered down my cable modem, then my router (Linksys WRT54G v8.0 / BCM5354KFBG Chipset / CPU 240Mhz ).

I then went back to my workstation (in another room running wireless g), unplugged all power from the wall, made sure my mJ was unplugged from ...

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BS BIGTIME!! How can you be in line on a phone call to Magicjack..?? There are no customer support phone numbers :? Seems like somebody made up something here :shock:

Devin said a customer service center...NOT Dan Borislow's customer service center.

Using the MagicJack for important and possibly ...

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Thanks for the reply.It would help for future upgrades.My question was more on the lines of what do to revert if already upgraded.

The caller id on my panasonic phone started working today.
I removed all other USB devices from the 4 back ports on my T5720, it had only one port in use apart from ...

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BTW- If anyone's interested, not only can you use the USB handset phone without the Dongle, BUT you can also use the USB phone WITH the Dongle.

To use the USB phone with dongle for MJ, first have the USB phone driver and USB phone installed, insert the MJ dongle, once softphone is up, click ...

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Now that you've seen the DMZ to local computer setting work well for your MJ, you can experiment further and try just doing a port forward on port 5070 (stop DMZ open only the ports necessary, you may need something other than just 5070, I dunno) and see how that works.

If anyone finds that MJ ...

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stroths wrote:
jhawk44709 wrote: I open my router DMZ on the computer that has MJ and using the windows firewall and so far MJ working great.
Can you go to whatismyip.org and post the results?

Stroths,

My IP address is 67.90.152.70

Hack away.

M5

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goto Applications/Gaming and click on DMZ and put the the ip for the computer that you have MJ On and it Save settings. Then you need to restart the MJ Software click on menu then goto Advanaced Users and click on Restart. See if that helps any.

Just for clarification: That's almost same as ...

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If i dont want an upgrade why should they shove it down our throats ?
Anybody found out a way yet to stop the upgrades being forced ?

Software firewall such as ZoneAlarm.

I didn't let my dongle get the updated firmware for several days while I watched the Internet forums to see what people were ...

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Thanks Mark. That was the one.

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Well, if you are sure that there is a reliable and feasible way to detect connected calls that carry no talking then I agree completely that things should have been handled that way.

An equivalently to WireShark on a PC must not be feasible do on each and every connection Y-Max establishes. The ...

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Call inactivity timer. Explain how that works.

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It is not a "phantom caller". It is a phantom call. The call was a real call. The parties are done talking, they each hang up, but the call stays running, costing Dr. Dan money in PSTN terminations and resources on his servers and leased lines.

I read about it, and I said, oh yeah, that happened to ...

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Maybe he didn't care like you say, Mark. I don't know what he's thinking. Holman could be right, the Brother-in-Law could be the Cptn. Kirk. I dunno.

What if the plan was to build it up fast, and sell it to eBay or Google or Vonage. If so, I think the more bugs he fixes without anyone knowing about ...

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Don't worry Lisa. Barack Obama is going to fix everything.

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Interesting perspective on "The Inventor" Holman. You could be 100% correct. Dan could have just hired a few guys and turned then loose to run the company, and Dan went to the horse races to hob knob with the other wealthy Floridians.

I don't know him. I keep mentioning him by name as do other on ...

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Accusing someone of bragging was something I recall from my childhood, not usually adult behavior. I'm pleased you took the high road and repeatedly insulted me in advanced ways that did not involve the use of psychological descriptors as I had done. Too bad I'm not more sophisticated and mature ...

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Whatever dude, Bill Clinton was engaged in a cover-up. Richard Nixon was engaged in a cover-up. If I'm right (and I may not be) Dan Borislow was simply trying to resolve a problem with his phone network. He implemented a TEMPORARY band aid to end calls that "may" have been phantom calls that didn't ...

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No that is not enough information to calculate the life expectancy.

1. you need to know how much flash the MJ has.

For the record... the MagicJack gen2 device has a Samsung K9F5608U0D TSOP NAND Flash chip which is a 256Mbit (32MByte) chip.

2. how much data is actually being written to the ...

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> and I could have done a better job of hiding it...

ANYBODY could have done a better job of hiding it - if they actually were trying to do so - since the idea of using a random number of seconds instead of a fixed round number like 1800 or 3600 is blindingly obvious (except possibly to someone ...

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You don't understand customer service. They don't know everything, obviously they don't know much.....how it works is they have scripts on a computer screen guiding them on how to respond. Dan DIDN'T want them to know anything about the cut-off timers..... HE DIDN'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THEM ...

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make 3 accounts. GC, Gizmo, and Voxalot. Set up Gizmo to forward all calls to voxalot in the softphone. Set up grand central to ring your Gizmo. So in theory your Grand central number will call gizmo but it sends the call to voxalot on the forward. I can get that to ring but no sounds when ...

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Thank you for the kind words dna.

I am happy I could help out a fellow forum member. Enjoy that Sunrocket 6011S with MJ. I have two of them running here. A very nice thing about them is the company who made them for Sunrocket (ATS) claims they are "WiFi Friendly". The 6011S is a wireless 2.4GHZ ...

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If he knew people would catch onto the timer's existence he would have told tech support how to respond when customers complained. CLEARLY they didn't want people to realize there was any sort of cut-off timer. How is that going to look to perspective customers? especially when it is never declared ...

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USB

I am far from an expert on this subject. There is much to know. I may be able to help some forum members though. Here goes-

A unit load is defined as 100mA in USB 2.0, (this was raised to 900mA in USB 3.0 but I digress). A maximum of 5 unit loads can be drawn from a single port in USB 2.0. In ...

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The title of this thread is BIG Trouble....LOL....after reading it is only error 401 in the browser window "trouble", that ain't trouble.

You want to know what BIG Trouble is? It is when your Ex-Wife takes you to Court to ask the Judge to order an increase in her child support. :shock:
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Flip your WRT54GS over onto it's back. There is a sticker on it's belly. It will say what version you have. This is important. Version numbers can be anything fro V1 to V7.2 If you cannot find it, then give me the first four digits of the Serial Number. It should read CGNx, where x can be any number ...

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There's enough sleaze in the way this company does business that I'm glad they're NOT trying to hide the fact that these cutoffs are intentional.

You can stop being so GLAD, because Dan DID / DOES try to hide that they implemented call cut-off timers. If they weren't trying to hide it, they would ...

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There's enough sleaze in the way this company does business that I'm glad they're NOT trying to hide the fact that these cutoffs are intentional. Also, random cutoffs would be worse for the user in that one couldn't plan for them, ...

I agree with you from a user's perspective regarding not being ...

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Here is a thought.... DAN ARE YOU LISTENING?

Instead of hard 60 minute timers, your programming staff should have done THIS:

Have a randomizer variable to that cut-off timer such that the cut-off occurs somewhere between x and y, where x might be 48 minutes (or whatever number you choose) and ...

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I had never seen a 30 or 60 minute cut-off on my account, but my long duration calls always occurred at, or after Midnight. Sooooo, maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe Dan had the programmers invoke the cutoff during heavy traffic times of day only. Pure speculation on my part. This would ...

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.... had 1800 (the number of seconds in 30 minutes). Now it's changed to 3600 (one hour). But, there wasn't another "Lucky You" upgrade.

That means MJ has some way to push these values to the softphone dynamically. They're either stored in the magicjack.dll file as a packaged resource. Or, they're ...

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Trek101 gave the best answer. DO NOT have two devices register(ed) to MJ servers simultaneously. Even if it does work (now) it is so easy for Dan to have software to detect this and shut off your account. If I were Dan, I would do that. It is probably just a matter of time before he adds that to his ...

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I never have seen that before. Link to more info?

You have never seen this before because I might be the first person to have done it.

There is no link. Magicjacksupport.com is the first place I published anything about it.

I put stickers on the box, over the top of where is had said Sunrocket ...

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it only matters if you want to fly under the radar :twisted:

otherwise, either value is fine.

How is THIS for flying under the radar (not)-

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww194/Magic6011S/FRANKIES_6011s_MAGICJACK.jpg

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http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww194/Magic6011S/6011s_2.jpg ...

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Excellent post.

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wag wrote:I can confirm that the new time limit is now 60 minutes.

Oh really? Not here.

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Gary, get a reality check man. A Corporation is a real entity much like any citizen that can break the law, lie, cheat, steal, discriminate, intentionally misrepresent the truth, otherwise harm.......a Corporation can do all the evil things a person can do. Corporations are not simply groups of ...

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I wish :) I'm using a Trendnet TEW-432BR (something like that) I dont ever remember seeing anything about NAT in the router settings. If I remember correctly tho voxalot has NAT on or off settings. Might be something \to look into. I just assumed that the codecs are incompatable hence the dead air ...

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This sounds like it might be a NAT issue. Please tell me what make and model of network address translator you are using and what firmware is in it, plus tell me the hardware version. Is it Linksys by any chance?

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I was thinking that each Magicjack might have associated with it a SIP phone number in addition to it's regular PSTN call-in number.

I don't know much about this but I feel the same way.

Maybe then there would be a way that someone using FreeWorldDialup for example could call the Magicjack ...

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