I just received my MJ about 30 minutes ago. For the time being, I am running it on an IBM T42 laptop that I borrowed from work (WINXP SP3 with all current patches). Eventually, the MJ will be moved to a HP T5700 Thin Client (still on its way).
As expected, the installation took about 30 seconds. Plugged in the phone line, plugged in the MJ, spun it wheels for about 30 seconds installing the drivers/software and then brought me to the registration screen.
Here is where I got a little wigged out...(little pitfall for future users)...
I told it I was a "new user" and entered my e-mail addy and password for account creation. It said that an account was already established for that e-mail address. GOOD GRIEF...I HAVE ALREADY BEEN HACKED!!! LOL Eventually, common sense kicked in and I figured that my account had already been created when I ordered the MJ. So, I selected I am an existing user and want to add a new location. WHAM! It let me right in. Whew!
I completed the registration process that took all of two minutes and within 5 seconds I had the "Ready to Call" signal! WOOOOHOOO! I picked up the phone...dial tone. Like a kid a xmas, I started doing my thing. Call my wife at work...no answer. Call one of my buddies at work...no answer. Call another buddy at work...no answer. DAMNIT!
Finally, I call a 3rd buddy and he picks up. I start the conversation with the usual childish noises and crap (that's how we say "hi") and jump right into a convo about the Phillies. 15 minutes later he has to get off the phone, but before he does I ask him "how did I sound to you?". (BTW...I think he took the question in a psychological kinda way and thought I was going to tell him I was getting ready to jump off the Walt Whitman Bridge...haha). I quickly followed it up with "echo, static, delay, etc?". He said not at all...crystal clear. WHEW x 2! I explained why I asked...not that it really matters.
So...first call was a tremendous success! Now, I am a total pessimist and I understand it was the first call. But, it is promising that neither I nor Pat heard a single blip on that call. We shall see. I am ready to move onto more challenges and initiate a DL from the newsgroups that will suck every kilobit of bandwidth that I have. I know that my router has QoS, so I am going to tinker with that first.
One last note…
I set up voicemail which took all of two minutes also. I called my MJ # from my cell and left a VM to see if the light on the cordless phone would flash when there is a message. No dice! In fact, the little light on the VMAIL button on the interface did not light up (I assume it should). I called my voicemail to make sure I actually had a message and it was there. Has anybody else experienced this? Are my expectations too high?
About the only thing left is for my 911 thingy to turn green. It sees my address…but it is still yellow.
All in all, I am very happy so far. As I experience different results (good and bad), I will post them here. Second, third and Nth impressions to come.
John