magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

johnatnro

shortz wrote:Anyway... the autoforward thing would be great.. maybe they read these forums??

Shortz

Don't count on it. Can anyone point out even one request for a new feature that they have actually implemented?

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I had a PayPal account a few years ago and canceled it after a buyer claimed he didn't receive his purchase. PayPal took the money out of my account even though UPS confirmed delivery.

I reopened the account a few months ago. I made a purchase and PayPal tried to take the money out of my bank ...

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I don't know how well MJ listens to suggestions. Or how good they are at taking freely-given best of breed ideas and shoehorning them into their set plans within a human lifetime.

Let me see...from my experience and knowledge, I think I can get suggestions implemented just as fast if I give ...

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My PayPal experience has been poor, but after they screwed up a purchase causing my bank to charge me twice for being overdrawn, I had it. The PayPal account has been canceled, but only after considerable hassle. PayPal support was clueless and gave me the scripted responses.

I tried to cancel my ...

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:?: Well, we LOVE our MJ!! We are ready to take the next step in our plan to save money which is to call up ATT and tell them although we would like to keep their internet service, we won't be needing their phone service any longer.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this???

I don't recommend it ...

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You must have a T-Mobile plan that meets minimum requirements (i.e. cost), not just any T-Mobile plan to qualify.

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Move it to any PC you want anytime

. It will not need to be registered again and a new number will not be assigned.

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If it were possible to obtain a Grand Central number: How does that work? One forum mentioned that calls made to this number are forwarded to the pending area location of the MJ owner.

You cannot have an MJ number in a pending area code period! GC will forward to the existing number that you set ...

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Active and pending area codes have nothing at all to do with making calls.

MJ can't assign a number to a pending MJ area code. You couldn't possibly make a call from one because you can't have an MJ assigned number in one.

If you plug in an MJ and see your assigned phone number, it is in an ...

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MagicJack? What a piece of crap, it just sits there with its blue light on! It doesn't wash the dishes, cut the grass, or walk my dog! All it does is let me make phone calls for next to nothing quite reliably, let my daughter-in-law call home at no charge from Italy when she was there, and generally ...

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100k refers to the use of a resistor to improve some aspects of your calls on MJ. Do a search of the forums for the word resistor. Several ways to install one are listed. I've been using one for about four months now.

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Check (search) the forums and you will find a couple people who are doing it successfully. This, however, doesn't mean it will be that way for you. Just plug your fax machine into the MJ and give it a try.

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Soon: A vague reference to a period of time that may be anything between now and eternity. It is subject to broad interpretation by the user.

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Soon.

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I have been very pleased with my MJ and have had reliable service since I got it about three months ago. Since I couldn't port my number and a few other features MJ lacks (like turning off MJ voicemail), I have ViaTalk as my primary service. ViaTalk works great for me also, not like my disastrous ...

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Yup, that's how it works! One clarification though, you can call her for free from your land line if her number is local to you or your land line service has free long distance, not because she has an MJ. That goes for anyone else calling her too.

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I've have also been pleased with my MJ. I have a Belkin Pre-N router and didn't have any ports open when I got my MJ. It worked fine, but I have opened ports for ViaTalk since then. If MJ would have had number porting available, I may have skipped ViaTalk, but probably not because of MJ's limited ...

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Once your MJ is set up with a US phone number, you only need an MJ with you to call back home and get calls from home if you are going overseas. A second MJ at home isn't needed if the MJ you take with you has a local phone number. Calls both ways will be free.

My daughter-in-law just got back from ...

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Where I live, my only choice for accetable Internet access is Verizon DSL. There is no cable available and no other DSL provider. Since I dropped my land line, Verizon now charges $10.00 more for DSL. Verizon VoiceWing, their voip service and their bare-bones land line both run about $23-$24 per ...

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Understand that MJ is not the $40.00 device that will save the world, but it has worked very well for me, much better than voip.com that cost five times as much. It is still a little rough around the edges (support, etc.), but so was I at that age.

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What, nobody has tried it yet?

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I signed with voip.com last June. Until the last few months it was excellent, but since then the roof has caved in. Just about any problem that can happen has happened. I called the BBB today and they have a "D" rating; there is only one worse, "F." I picked up ViaTalk for three months and after one ...

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I am giving my MJ a well-deserved vacation in Italy compliments of my daughter-in-law. Has anyone taken one to Europe and made calls back to the USA? Shouldn't be any problem since it is all over the WWW, but how about some input from someone who has actually done it.

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I just factor in all the per kwh charges. The fixed charges will be there no matter what I use, so I don't add them in.

As Lena said, desktop $ can vary greatly. If you want to know EXACTLY what your computer costs to run, buy a little device called a Kill A Watt. You can search for it and find one ...

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Shouldn't be any problem with receiving calls with your laptop closed. That's how I use mine. My cost is less that $1.50 per month to keep it fired up.

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dbarber - Dat dood it!

Didn't work with Firefox, did work with IE. Thanks for the help.

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I run Firefox and AVG ani-virus without a problem. I have had very good service since day one, a couple weeks ago.

johnatnro

Pretty much the same for me. I use Firefox on the computer and Java was updated a few days ago. Still doesn't work.

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saxman - You are right about prices varying, it is amazing how much they can vary. I found the typical 100-200 watts by searching online and comparing different sites. It seems to be in the ballpark. 40 watts is great, but I can't get there. My laptop, however is the hot setup for me at less than $1 ...

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Tried it...got a "MagicFix is not supported on your computer at this time" message. Just a common Acer laptop with Windows XP up to date. Maybe it is just running too good!

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My MJ has worked great. No set up hassles or anything. Hope I'm not jinxing myself now! I didn't install a broadband booster for my DSL (yet), but did do the resistor deal and it either made a difference or I just wanted it to.

I agree with saxman, vociemail is a mess, I would like to be able to ...

johnatnro

Thank y'all, I'll give it a try when I get home.

johnatnro

The cost of electricity including all the additional charges piled on totals $0.0981 in my area. Just the actual electricity cost is $0.053718, but add cost recovery, distribution charge, securitization charge, and securitization tax charge per KWH to get the actual paid cost.

I do run a large ...

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I would like to run magicFix to see if everything is OK, but can't find it. Anywhere I find it referenced or a link, (control panel, my.magicjack, etc.), the link just takes me to the MJ home page. Any help would be appreciated.

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Just an FYI - When I got my MJ a couple weeks ago I was able to choose my area code, then a number was assigned. I was not given a list of available numbers to choose from.

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While you can use any computer, consider the cost. If you keep the MJ available at all times, it can add up. I can tell you that my laptop costs less than $1.50 per month to run 24/7. But my desktop costs over $27.00 per month to run 24/7.

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strndedinalska - I'm a little short on cash, how about Bear Stearns shares at, say, the price a year ago? :wink:

Patents and trade marks are wonderful. Just look at what big corporations can claim as their own, almost anything they want. From experience, I can tell you that the common people can't ...

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The cost of electricity including all the additional charges piled on totals $0.0981 in my area. Just the actual electricity cost is $0.053718, but add cost recovery, distribution charge, securitization charge, and securitization tax charge per KWH to get the actual price paid.

Southwest Michigan ...

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Ever wonder how much it costs to use your MJ? Sure, you know what you paid for it, but what about keeping the old computer fired up?

In my case, I decided to use my laptop with my MJ because it would cost considerably less, but how much? The simplest way I found to determine the cost was to buy a ...

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The pop-ups are small and not a big problem. In fact, yesterday I found out about the brief outage from the message from Dan that popped up. Very helpful.

A little advertising in the pop-ups is fine, after all, someone has to pay the bills, and for what we are paying for MJ, we can't complain.

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Thanks Gary, being a little crazy keeps me from going insane! :lol:

Sure the counter deal is disappointing, but I don't even look at them, just like "the offer is good only until midnight today" but it is still the same tomorrow. Ever see a TV commercial showing a 4" thick sandwich, but when you ...

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Hey, I'm new here so treat me gently. In reading the original post, I think this guy gave me a speeding ticket once, I don't think there could be two like him! Anyway, I have had my MJ for only two days and have yet to encounter any problem. I think it is great. In time it should get better.

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My MJ is off to Italy!

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