Question about the new magic jack (one not needing a PC)

[xxsniper1522xx]

I personally would love having the new magic jack device that doesn't need a computer, but it's $70. I already bought the $40 previously.

Since I had AT&T before, I have an entire phone system. I tried connecting the phone jack to the entire house but of course that didn't work. Would it be possible to do this with the new one (considering it's connecting to a wall jack instead of USB)?

Is this new one any good? More problematic than the old one?

Thanks.

[nailgunner]

I personally would love having the new magic jack device that doesn't need a computer, but it's $70. I already bought the $40 previously.

Since I had AT&T before, I have an entire phone system. I tried connecting the phone jack to the entire house but of course that didn't work. Would it be possible to do this with the new one...

I, and a lot of others, have had great success with having the old regular MJ plugged into an outlet to have phones throughout the house ring.

I would do some searching in this forum to make sure you have it set up correctly. But if your setup, for whatever purpose, won't allow the regular MJ to be tied into your house system, I highly doubt the new Plus would work either.

[dogcacher]

I tried connecting the phone jack to the entire house but of course that didn't work. .

Of course? Um, why not? Did you unplug the AT&T line coming into your main box?

Do that first, then plug a line from the Magic Jack into any phone outlet and the whole house should be ready to go.

[bitstopjoe]

Maybe not the whole house as REN comes into play with multiple phones.
You may want to try hooking up one phone at a time and see how it goes as one too many phones could be holing down the whole setup.

[xxsniper1522xx]

Maybe not the whole house as REN comes into play with multiple phones.
You may want to try hooking up one phone at a time and see how it goes as one too many phones could be holing down the whole setup.

Any ideas on how I would go about getting this work? Like a tutorial?

[bitstopjoe]

Everything you need to know has already been mentioned to you here.
Not sure what else you need to know.

If you had done a search, which was suggested, you might have seen this:

http://www.phoneservicesupport.com/whol ... t7918.html

[xxsniper1522xx]

Everything you need to know has already been mentioned to you here.
Not sure what else you need to know.

If you had done a search, which was suggested, you might have seen this:

http://www.phoneservicesupport.com/whol ... t7918.html

>Lazy.
>Did do some searching, rather have you guys suggest a specific one.
>Lazy is implied when I specifically ask.

Thanks.

[bitstopjoe]

Lazy?? I have you beat. I am so lazy when I make pancakes I add popcorn so I dont have to flip them

Anyone else lazy and care to chime in how lazy are you?

[dogcacher]

Any ideas on how I would go about getting this work? Like a tutorial?

No, I don't like a tutorial. But, I'll give it a shot. It's simple.

1. Do you know where the telco box is on a side of your house?

If not, go find it and come back.

2. Open the box, you'll probably need a flat blade screwdriver.

3. Note where the telco line comes in, probably a regular (RJ11) phone connector, Possibly held down with a wire clip.

4. Unplug it.

5. Go in the house and plug the phone cable from the end of the Magicjack into an outlet.

6. You should have phone service throughout the house. If not, you may have too many (older) phones, as Joe said. Start unplugging them until you get a dial tone on one that's still plugged in.

7. No good? Punt.

[shushwap]

Lazy?? I have you beat. I am so lazy when I make pancakes I add popcorn so I dont have to flip them

Anyone else lazy and care to chime in how lazy are you?

I have you beat there... I have the wife make the pancakes....

[bitstopjoe]

Lazy?? I have you beat. I am so lazy when I make pancakes I add popcorn so I dont have to flip them

Anyone else lazy and care to chime in how lazy are you?

I have you beat there... I have the wife make the pancakes....

I tried that too, but then I realized I live alone ( took me a week to figure out I wasnt getting any pancakes as I was too lazy to look at the clock or calander So not an option...

[mntnman60]

Any ideas on how I would go about getting this work? Like a tutorial?

No, I don't like a tutorial. But, I'll give it a shot. It's simple.

1. Do you know where the telco box is on a side of your house?

If not, go find it and come back.

2. Open the box, you'll probably need a flat blade screwdriver.

3. Note where the telco line comes in, probably a regular (RJ11) phone connector, Possibly held down with a wire clip.

4. Unplug it.

5. Go in the house and plug the phone cable from the end of the Magicjack into an outlet.

6. You should have phone service throughout the house. If not, you may have too many (older) phones, as Joe said. Start unplugging them until you get a dial tone on one that's still plugged in.

7. No good? Punt.

Does this work with a house wired for DSL too?

Thanks!

[dogcacher]

3. Note where the telco line comes in, probably a regular (RJ11) phone connector, Possibly held down with a wire clip.

4. Unplug it.

Does this work with a house wired for DSL too?

Thanks!

You should be able to answer this one yourself.

Do step 4 and you don't have DSL service anymore, do you?

[mntnman60]

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You should be able to answer this one yourself.

Do step 4 and you don't have DSL service anymore, do you?[/quote]

??? Excuse me for asking! I'll do some research and get better info next time.

[mikeexplorer]

I have DSL service and also have MJ wired to my phone jacks. When I bought my house, the existing phone wires were bad and noisy so I rewired them. In my case each jack comes down to the basement and all tie onto a terminal block. So it was easy to do, the one jack that still needs outside service for the DSL I left alone, the remaining jacks I removed from the terminal block and wired them together by color. So all the remaining jacks are isolated from the outside and I have no problems with MJ servicing all the jacks.

House phone wiring could have been wired different ways, say jack to jack and so forth. Maybe an idea is to pick the jack that you have your DSL service on and run a new wire from that jack (disconnecting the existing wire to that jack) back to the box outside your house, remove the existing connection and connect the new wire on to provide your DSL to just that one jack. The remaining jacks in the house will be now isolated from the outside and still connected together.

Mike

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