magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

kcowan

Mine runs on a dedicated Media Center PC. Occasionally, I will stop utorrrent seeding but otherwise it is problem-free. I call for PV MX to the US and Canada but I also used it on WiFi from Italy back to Vancouver in September.

kcowan

I have used the AX522 switch since I bought the MJ. Works great. On outgoing, I enter #0 to select the other line (VOIP in our case). The main system is a Uniden base station with up to 10 handsets. I use 4.

I also have a regular cordless plugged into the local line. When someone is on that line ...

kcowan

Mr_Dasher wrote: If you want number porting then you may want to try voip.ms. You'll have to email them directly to see if your area code is available.

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Thanks I will have a look.

kcowan

Good morning Lisa
I have been through your saga of call caps and Skype. I have been a Skype user for 3 years but I prefer using telephones. I use it for video calls to other Skype users now although I still have some credit in my SkypeOut account. I'm a little concerned about your comment here ...

kcowan

Good afternoon Lisa
I have been through your saga of call caps and Skype. I have been a Skype user for 3 years but I prefer using telephones. I use it for video calls to other Skype users now although I still have some credit in my SkypeOut account.

Now that you have been using Skype for over 5 ...

kcowan

Good morning, kcowan.
...
Admittedly, there are many happy campers (mostly men) on here who don't mind the call caps. So, if you can live with someone else deciding your call limits, then magicJack may not be a bad solution. It's certainly less costly than Skype.

Good luck!

Thanks for your quick ...

kcowan

There are still 78 hits just proving that many sites are sloppy about removing proven Spam from their sites.

kcowan

There is a little difference. The hotel does not offer the first night free.

In the advertising world, MJ would be smarter to be offering a moneyback guarantee.

BTW, it sometimes take 3 days to get a pre-authroization removed from a credit card. You will discover this if you book into a hotel for ...

kcowan

I had trouble with "Verified by Visa" when renewing earlier this month. But I switched to my Mastercard and managed to get through the BMO challenge screens to complete the one year renewal. I got no reminder either but just remembered the date of initiation.

kcowan

Where does it say in the TOS that there are any limits on the length of outgoing calls? I am talking about below average daily use here.

kcowan

I went to their web site on June 4th and purchased a one-year extension because the MJ was activated June 4, 2008. No problem and no hassle (other than having to bear their aweful web site).

I would never buy more than one year until MJ cleans up their act. They are financing their business on the ...

kcowan

Good morning, fruitfast777.

As I am no longer a magicJack user
How come? Is it because it doesn't work with your thin client?
I abandoned magicJack because they instituted outbound call caps, which at last report are either 01:59:00 or 02:00:00. Call caps are unacceptable to me.
Can you ...

kcowan

ISTR that Skype phones are locked. But unlocked phones are available for comparable prices.

kcowan

The biggest thing MJ could do is make their USP* match their service. By selling it to the mass consumer market, they are no seriously out of sync with truth in advertising laws.

When I bought in May 2008, I did the research needed to understand its limitations and made a value judgement to buy it ...

kcowan

I bought the MJ last May 2008. I knew its limitations but decided that it was the cheapest way to call from PV MX. Got a San Diego number.

Paid $47 and have enjoyed a year of LD service. It has its quirks but still delivers good value. In Vancouver, I just use it for outbound LD. I just renewed for ...

kcowan

http://acanac.com for VOIP $10.00 per month.

Acana only offers Canadian numbers and to get that price I had to pay for 12 months in advance. $120.00 for a year with a money back guarantee. The service has been good so far. I switched my entire house over to the new service and my girlfriend hasn't ...

kcowan

I have been on MJ for a year. I use it for outgoing LD and inbound for voicemail. Because people never reach us live, it has remained a secondary service and we have maintained landlines in both our homes.

Had the ATA and WiFi phones been viable options, we would have had multiple MJs and use it ...

kcowan

When I bought my MJ a year ago, Victor's site said that Cdn numbers would be extra cost. I think it relates to Dan not wanting to pay the extra required to expand the service for marginal returns. I know many Vonage users who would switch in a moment if there were any credibility to their Canadian ...

kcowan

$99.95 a year for MJ with a Cdn number!

Why would anyone want to hear about them or try them?

kcowan

Wow 2014! I am not sure I will be around then! If the MJ business model is sound, there will be competitors. I just renewed for $20 because I think any technology is incompatible with 5 year commitments.

I am hopeful that it will evolve to meet our needs and, if so, I would rather pay them a little ...

kcowan

This sounds good. I don't need it just yet but I will in the fall when I replace the landline.

kcowan

All Canadian orders get shipped out of Toronto by their urlhasbeenblocked distributor. So no customs problems and no tracking either.

kcowan

If they are selling as many units as they say they are, there is no reason to do something as obviously dishonest as this.
I could see if they weren't selling any units or if the guys involved were at risk of losing lots of money but these guys are apparently rich and they are still risking their ...

kcowan

On the networking side, Borislow is quick to diagram the MagicJack/YMax advantage, which he says comes from building a network that covers “80 percent of the U.S. population” with its gateways and SBCs. By connecting most of a call’s distance over the Internet between its own gear, Borislow says ...

kcowan

Ordered from US site for US$46.90 and got it shipped from Toronto via 1st class postage and arrived 4 days later.

No express shipping charge and no credit card charge yet (Options seem to trigger immediate charge.)

Works great using AC 858 (Poway CA).

kcowan

Its about five years no since I have had to pay for a phone subscription of any kind. I know that this isn't for everyone, but if you use a computer then you can do this with a little education and an unwillingness to pay for your own ignorance. And its isn't going to be any harder than trying to ...

kcowan

Yes the phone book should identify which exchanges within an area code are local. Remember all that BS. So nice to leave it all behind us with MJ and other calling plans.

(As an aside, in the early days of cell phones, I could call forward it to the number I wanted to call then just call my cell ...

kcowan

I went through the process and ordered on with shipping for $46.90. The confirmation email said I ordered 2. I objected several times saying I would just cancel the charge since I could prove that it was an unauthorized charge.. Anyway they finally confirmed my order for one and I got it about 4 ...

kcowan

These are good questions for a novice at telephony. There are lots of us.
Spoofing is just fooling the call receiver into thinking you are calling from another number, usually your real home number. This prevents your calls from being screened out as telemarketers.
An ATA enables a VOIP phone to ...

kcowan

Zen wrote:Here is the info I found on MJ's site.

Q: Will magicJack work with wireless broadband?
A: Yes. magicJack works with wireless broadband such as EVDO and HSDPA.

Yes those are the expensive data plans referred to upthread for connecting a PC to the internet.

kcowan

kcowan wrote:But loader does not load my custom phone numbers in G:\magicJack\AddressBook.xml and I have no fix for that.

Got that problem fixed. It was a syntax error that developed with a subsequent release after the original hack was published.

kcowan

Uniden Win1200 cordless
Uniden TRU9485/9460 http://www0.epinions.com/content_241497378436

kcowan

No problem from AC 858. Just 10 digits to call anywhere including Canada.

kcowan

Re expectations, my experience:
- a phone service that only goes down as much as my cable provider.
No problem
- medium quality voice (cell quality)
Better - sometimes like a landline across the street
- medium voice lag ( < 750 ms)
Once in a while but I am not sure what causes it. Have made 3000 ...

kcowan

You can hack this in Excel. Say your spreadsheet looks like this, in A1 .. B2: Jenny Lee 212-867-5309
Peggy Sue 213-234-5789
In cell C1, enter this formula: ="<Respondent fullname='"&A1&"' phonenumber='"&B1&"' />" Copy the formula down column C. The worksheet now shows: Jenny Lee 212-867-5309 ...

kcowan

Here is the one we use:
http://www.epinions.com/content_241497378436
and it seems to work just fine with MJ.

We also have the USB Uniden Win1200 (a gift) that works fine too.

kcowan

kcowan,

I don't know what your talking about with the 99999999999 stuff.

To terminate MJ just go to the safely remove hardware icon left click and select the only item that shows as one item with two drives associated with it. The delivered MJ has only one item in the address book and it is
test ...

kcowan

kcowan,

I don't know what your talking about with the 99999999999 stuff.

To terminate MJ just go to the safely remove hardware icon left click and select the only item that shows as one item with two drives associated with it.
The delivered MJ has only one item in the address book and it is ...

kcowan

So unplugging and replugging work fine. But using the shutdown and restart hacks gives me the original entry of only
test and 9999999999!

kcowan

So I have these special procedures and
1) Kill does not work - still using c-a-d
2) Startup loads the original fake address book with test and 9999999999. Whereas plugging and unplugging loaded it no problem, But had some other serious problems...

How bad can I be?

kcowan

Safe removal appiles to disk and other storage devices that operate on a memory cache, and the process forces the cache to be written to disk making it safe to remove without loss of data. Not required for the MJ.

kcowan

dbarber wrote:Didn't you get the 15" USB extension cable with your MJ? It's saved my butt a few times when I've moved my laptop.

They have downgraded the cable to 6" now. Should still be dogproof though!

kcowan

Open AddressBook.xml in Notepad. Position the cursor after the <AddressBook> line. Type ctrl-v. Save file. Start MJ to see result. I have searched for AddressBook.xml and it cannot find it. What can I do?

Edit: Nevermind. I searched in the magicJack device. Doh! "G:\magicjack\AddressBook.xml ...

kcowan

So is the reason I want to shut down the MJ app so I can hibernate without unplugging? If so then how do I start it up without plugging?

Is there any place where all these tools are collected? I just got it yesterday and am on a steep learning curve for anything fancy.

kcowan

Why not use a cordless phone system with a remote extension? Cheaper than MJ with no annual fees. We use Uniden that can have up to 10 handsets from Costco.

kcowan

I got my email confirmation today and they added a second MJ c/w shipping and charged it all to my card already.

So far, interactions with them have been unproductive . Oh well I guess I can cancel the whole thing and get the charge reversed by my bank.

Not a good start on this journey.

Nah ...

kcowan

I got my email confirmation today and they added a second MJ c/w shipping and charged it all to my card already.

So far, interactions with them have been unproductive. Oh well I guess I can cancel the whole thing and get the charge reversed by my bank.

Not a good start on this journey.

kcowan

Darkman90808 wrote:You might want to go to http://my.magicjack.com just to make sure you're registered and can make changes to call forwarding, etc.

How do you get registered before you receive your MJ?

kcowan

I ordered my first MJ today. Our LD is running around $10/mo so I figure just replacing outbound calling will pay for it. We'll see when our area code is available if we need to get inbound. Meanwhile we will spoof our landline number so as not to be screened out by our friends.

We are in BC so I ...

kcowan

b) I've been told when Canadian area codes become available, you get to switch your number to the Canadian area code free of charge and very easily

I guess "free of charge" might be subject to some interpretation:
Notice: Canadian numbers are not currently available and will be available soon ...

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