magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

Thanks!

I purchased my MJ a couple of years ago and was pleased with it (even with the software instability, etc) but I did not renew my plan after the first year. It's been appr. 2 years since my MJ was active. I'd like to start using MJ again but I'm wondering if there's been a hardware refresh in the ...

We have the VTech ia5847 cordless phones. Caller ID works without the 100k resistor fix.

Caller ID for our DirectTV HR21-700 (HD DVR system) did not work without the 100k resistor fix.

Audio across remote connections like that is, at best, scratchy. Just try streaming a song or video through a Citrix connection. ;) As long as whatever you used to "remote control" the PC at home support audio mapping then it should work. Whatever you'd use would have to support all audio mapping ...

Just an FYI for those that believe MJ isn't listening to your reports. I don't work for MJ so I have no idea if they really are listening or not. However, coming from a tech background I do know that if you're developing a product for the masses (50k or so current customers I believe), and you're ...

with Pre-Paid stuff there really isn't much incentive to improve any Service after the Sale.

You know the old adage, it's twice as expensive (if not more) to get a new customer as it is to keep a customer. Their incentive is a 5 year business plan which most investors require before providing ...

Sure, it solves the incoming situation, but how about outgoing?

Have you tried the spoofer that's listed elsewhere? I use it and so far it works great. When I make a call from my home phone (a regular phone, not the MJ soft phone), caller ID shows my GC 405 area code. Granted it would be nice if ...

MagicJacked wrote:Nope, never heard of it. I use pscp on windows.

Putty is good stuff. I use their SSH/Telnet client, especially now that it supports serial connections. WinSCP uses a GUI and is a little more user friendly than a CLI based utility.

No way I could do my job, but that did not seem to matter to them.

In many instances they (we) are only implementing what senior management asks for. Unfortunately the higher the security posture the more difficult it tends to be to get one's work done.

But they did not know about scp ...

A lot of people are having that issue. Have you tried running it as a service as is mentioned in one of the other threads in the Tips, Tricks, and Hacks area?

I agree with Kumar. For $40 I'd go for it. With a wife and 2 children I spend more than that when I go to a restaurant.

FWIW - MJ is my only home based phone line right now. To cut costs, about 10 months ago my wife and I decided to go pure cell phone and turn off the $25/mth home phone service ...

There are no area codes (505 or 575) listed for the entire state.

I feel for you. No Oklahoma area codes either. I selected one from Dallas for now and am using GC and the spoofer to make it a 405 area code.

I hope things work out better for you and that you get your MJ soon. I think you'll be ...

One was the not nice type that prevented me from accessing my home network and the Internet.

Hi MagicJacked,

The not nice VPN was configured that way most likely for security. Being a networking person myself I get very concerned when a network I have no control over gains access to my network ...

Depending on what VPN you're using and what your company's policies are, it's highly unlikely you'll be able to make something like MJ work while connected to your VPN. To do so would require your VPN to be configured for something called split tunneling, a situation where you can still be connected ...

Zeico,

Most of the examples you gave were of issues with the website, not issues with the MJ itself. I suppose that's understandable since you've not received your MJ yet. Once you get it, and understand that it is in Beta and is only a tiny fraction of the cost of a regular phone line while it's ...

Nice setup you've got there. Beats the rig I'm running MJ on. It's a P4 1.8G with 256M RAM running WXP Pro. Since this is my only non-cell phone service I needed it up 24x7 and had an old Gateway box that I reloaded WXP on. With that I'm not really having any issues quality wise. I do hear some ...

I don't know what MJ will charge for their pre-paid international minutes but there are international calling cards out there where you dial an 800 number, enter your pin, the dial the international number you want to call. My wife uses one to call her family in Korea. I think we get something like ...

I suppose if you're really not happy you can return it for a refund. As best I recall the shipping costs were only $7 or so, the $39.95 is supposed to be refundable.

What type of PC are you running this on? Is it doing anything else at the time that you're making a phone call? What type of Internet ...

magicJack.exe /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot "G:\magicJack"

This command as written assumes you're at a DOS prompt in the directory where the executable is or that the executable is in your path. Try running the following command;

"%APPDATA%\mjusbsp\magicjack.exe" /foreground /scf ...