magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Hacks

iz6 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 9

Dont know how much this will help anyone, but here is my expierience with MJ. I bought it about 3 months ago. I am running it on a Dell desktop that is about 5 years old. I had wireless broadband internet. I tried all of the tweaks and tips that have ever been mentioned on this board, and would still have very choppy calls, sometimes worse than others but never really good. I had to turn my microphone and speaker volumes wide open to even get close to useable service. I called my internet provider and they let me expierment with different speeds. We went from 756k-3M download speed and and everything in between for the upload. It seemed to work a little better when we set the speeds tp match each other on the upload and download side, but still quality was not very good. Finally I decide to try the cable high speed internet and ...wow, it is jsut as good as my home phone. I even have the slow package at 756K DL and 256 UL. The choppiness is completely gone now. Unbelievable the difference it made. My conclusion is there must be more of a lag time in the wireless high speed than in cable. So if you have the cable option I would highly recommend it.

az2008

JohnnyFreightTRAIN · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject:

yeah i cant get it working to a satisfactory level on wireless broadband

jwryahoo · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 27

I have used the MJ with various methods -- all have been good.

I have cable at home and dsl at work. MJ works fineon both. The one at work has many people on the network - but it still works fine.

At home I have it plugged into a TC directly wired into my router -- no problem. Also if I use my laptop (at home) via wireless with the MJ plugged into it -- still no problem.

At work -- with dsl I can use the MJ directly plugged into my desktop -- no problem. I also have two laptops (wireless) at work -- if I plug the MJ into either of them --no problmes.

My personal opinion is that the quality of service very much depends on two things:

1. Your computer. I even use a small netbook Acer Aspire one xp -- works very good.

2. The telephone service that the person you are callilng is using. I have no problem calling anyone -- with the only exception of my Mother-in-Law. She uses a digital internet phone -- which causes conflicts. There is no problem with anyone else.

My 2 cents worth.

greendl · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 3

How did you set the QOS priority for MJ in the Tomato firmware?

az2008 · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

couch-potato · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:55 am Post subject:

I agree - I have wireless broadband - and have poor audio quality.

I think using a laptop on wifi is not comparable to wireless broadband, where the tower is 5 miles away.

Unfortunately, cable is not an option for me.

Matt9876 · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 504

Running a Linksys WRT54G off Motorola cable modem and 7 megabit ISP service.

My dedicated MagicJack computer WinXP has a matching Linksys-G PCI card.

This is my main phone and it works well most of the time. Smile

scoobydoo · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

az2008

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