What Does It Mean?

Darkman90808 · Post by **Darkman90808** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:09 am

I've noticed a significant decrease in activity on the forum lately. Does this mean all the questions have been answered? Or, is MJ working the way it's supposed to for most folks?

I haven't had much time to fool with mine lately, but frankly, I lost patience and haven't had it plugged in, mostly 'cause my Moto Droid + Google Voice address most of my needs.

Anyone care to opine?

newtoncd · Post by **newtoncd** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:28 am

For me, now that I have purchased the Aspire Revo and magicFeatures, magicJack easily rivals our old service from Comcast; I am very pleased with the service.

sabresfan · Post by **sabresfan** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:19 pm

It could be a combination of things. MJ may not be in as much of a demand now with some improvements in the economy. Also MJ may finally be working better for most with the upgrades to their network over the last couple of years. Either way most of us seemed to be pleased with the service and the price. This has to be the only voip service I can think of where 3rd party software (other than asterisk) can give you more features than the cable companies or pots. The other possibility that others have speculated here in the past is that MJ sales may have finally peaked and the market for cheap voip has become saturated. With the cable companies giving out discounts, Vonage upping the wars with their world plan, Nettalk giving away lifetime service for $99, Skype offering new plans for dirt cheap and Ooma releasing their telo within the past year people may be trying other voip companies now.

Matt9876 · Post by **Matt9876** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:40 pm

I'm almost scared to say anything, with the exception of my cable ISP messing with my router the MJ service has never been better.

Running old HP mini tower computer XP SP3 with Linksys wireless card,MJ dongle,Belkin router with QoS set to maximize voice connections.

Warning:Be sure to clone a computers MAC address into your router if you are on any cable ISP and want your MJ to work as it should,I suspect this is a basic problem of getting MJ to work properly over a wireless/router connection.

cell14 · Post by **cell14** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:18 am

. MJ may not be in as much of a demand now with some improvements in the economy

Beats me.

Forums have their ups and downs. Over the years, about 30000 people signed up, but only a fraction of them comes back regularly. We have a few millions of MJ users. So I would be carefull jumping conclusions .
MJ popularity is still growing, especially among people with realtives outside of the U.S. I am , after 19 months, still happy with the service. After a few initial voice mail hick ups, I learned to live with the limitations of the service. I identified the line quality as the main culprit and till we get a real 21st century high speed internet around here I will have to live with certain issues.
Novelty wears out and many hackers moved on to new toys.

johnvan · Post by **johnvan** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:48 am

I haven't had any reason to post because mine has been working flawlessly now on my thin client. Calls always go through, no beeping, quality is like a landline. Only minor issue is I can't call out to some 1-800 numbers.
I never even check my thin client through VNC.

Darkman90808 · Post by **Darkman90808** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am

Seems like there's a fair consensus, at least from the small pool of respondants, that MJ is working well for folks. I'll plug mine in this a.m. and make some calls. (I spent the majority of my weekend squirreling around upgrading to the pre-release version of 2.2 for my Droid.)

Thanks for the comments....

Nobody beats the Whiz! · Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:20 am

Darkman90808 wrote:Seems like there's a fair consensus, at least from the small pool of respondants, that MJ is working well for folks. I'll plug mine in this a.m. and make some calls. (I spent the majority of my weekend squirreling around upgrading to the pre-release version of 2.2 for my Droid.)

Thanks for the comments....

I think you jinxed me.

My MJ has gotten a bit choppy the past couple days.

I'll run SpyBot tonight, and hope for the best.

Good luck with yours.

Nobody beats the Whiz! · Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:56 pm

Nobody beats the Whiz! wrote:
I think you jinxed me.

My MJ has gotten a bit choppy the past couple days.

I'll run SpyBot tonight, and hope for the best.

Good luck with yours.

Came home for lunch. MSSE already caught a few things, then SpyBot caught one more.

All is clear again. That was easy.

Paul777 · Post by **Paul777** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:45 pm

Yes I've noticed the forums are relatively quiet too. My MJ's worked right out of the box with a laptop and tower. I had some set up issues with some thin clients and even then it was not an issue with the MJ's.

So I would say the product works. For me fairly flawless for 3 months now on two MJ's. I was skeptical at first, but I am extremely happy with the quality of calls, flawless service and fantastic price !!

Would still like to have other features similar to Google Voice and Simulring (follow me), and would be great if it could work without a computer or thin client, but overall few issues here.

Darkman90808 · Post by **Darkman90808** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:01 am

Wow! I just got off a ten minute call to a friend and enjoyed stellar call quality. Since I'm in the greater Los Angeles area, I'm pleasantly surprised. Keeping my fingers crossed!

SIR****TMG · Post by **SIR****TMG** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:50 pm

Mine has been working great

johnvan · Post by **johnvan** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:30 am

My call display is showing NAME and number all the time now. I didn't think that was supported. Nice bonus.

Matt9876 · Post by **Matt9876** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:33 pm

Made several long calls today 58min,45min,28min not a single problem.

Going to build up two or three small MJ machines for family members and give them out as gifts this year.

I honestly feel the MJ service has matured into a real phone company.

tony · Post by **tony** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:13 pm

Darkman90808 wrote:I've noticed a significant decrease in activity on the forum lately. Does this mean all the questions have been answered? Or, is MJ working the way it's supposed to for most folks?

Anyone care to opine?

Here in Canada MJ is now sold in retail stores so there should still be new subscribers. While MJ seems to work better now, you'd think there'd still be new subscribers having problems related to issues other than MJ (network, wireless, firewall, etc). Perhaps people are really using the search function and finding solutions to their problems without posting?

Personally, I have moved onto using ATA's and a voip.ms subscription. I still pay the annual subscription for two MJ's that I've given to my and my wife's parents. The MJ's are okay for calls to family. I use the ATAs for business calls. But I still come back to this forum to see what's happening.

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