Fix for jittery voice

[wipeout97]

Sure enough it is the darn proxy servers. Force a switch to another server and the jittery voice goes away. Edit your C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file with notepad or word pad and ad the line below "localhost" (this should work on most of the east coast or further?).

127.0.0.1 localhost
67.106.135.70 216.234.78.8






Restart the magicjack and viola......bye bye jitters, for me anyway.

Hope this helps

[wipeout97]

forgot to add all my test calls were performed while I was lazy and left bittorrent download 8 meg a sec down and uploading 75KB a second up. I scratched my head for a minute remembering QoS was turned off on the router also. Maybe the magic jack is not so bad afterall.........it just needs decent tech support and an upgrade so the provision does not force you to an overloaded server?

[msiam]

How the heck do you get 8 meg a sec down on BT?? I say "wheeeeee" when Im getting a little over 100 kb.. Is there somthing you do to your router to allow that speed..whats your isp and whats your DL speed from them? If there is something I can tweek to get some faster DL ..Please ... let me have the news!!!

[ret27m]

while downloading torrents i avrage speeds between 350 and 775 kbs...

6mb down 512kb up connection

[smwest]

I just started having this problem today. On the east Coast in SC. I have tried this fix, high priority fix and many others and nothing is getting rid of the choppiness. Any other ideas?

[az2008]

127.0.0.1 localhost
67.106.135.70 216.234.78.8

This doesn't work on my system. My system doesn't consult the host file when it has an IP address already.

Mark

[devinmccloud]

off...subject go look at the global speeds for other countries.

Asia = 25000mb - 44000mbps
Africa
Europe
South America

America is in the dark ages. We were supposed to be fiber optic by 2000 and the phone companies got billions in tax breaks but someone dropped the ball on making sure they kept their end of the bargain. Here it is 2008 and very few have 3 - 10mbps connection. I have 3mbps at $45/month from cableone....Americans have been screwed!

On a second note...please tell me how editing your host file will in any way fix the choppy calls. As far as I know the host file is used for DNS to ip mapping and only would bypass the 30ms time it takes to contact the default dns servers provided by your ISP.
I have experienced this problem and some time it is so bad the only solution is for me to call them back and then the call is crystal clear. I think it has more to do with network traffic and possibly collisions on your network. Still trying to fix this one!

[MagicHack]

127.0.0.1 localhost
67.106.135.70 216.234.78.8

This doesn't work on my system. My system doesn't consult the host file when it has an IP address already.

Mark

try running:

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ipconfig /flushdns

after editing the hosts file

[az2008]

try running:

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ipconfig /flushdns

after editing the hosts file

It still didn't work. I did /release, /renew. And did /flushdns before and after those operations. I started Wireshark, then started MJ. It's doing a "SIP Register" to the IP address on the right side of what I specified in the host file.

It appears XP doesn't consult the host file when it has a valid IP address. Or, maybe it's because MJ isn't doing a DNS lookup because it knows it has an IP address. (Maybe the host file is only consulted when a DNS call is made?).

If someone is having a different experience, let me know and I'll investigate further.

Mark