Can I have a hardwired, unattended magicjack setup?

[ibcradio]

What I mean is, can I run cable from a magicjack to my home phone system patch panel and not bother with any software on a computer to talk on the phone? I'm looking to replace my home phone landline with a magic jack and my proposed setup is to plug the jack into a server I have running in my basement and then run phone cable from the jack and tie it into my home phone wiring. Will this work?

Thanks

[Mr_Dasher]

Hi,

It works.

This is how I run my home phone system. I took an old laptop with a broken LCD screen and setup a system were I run a basic web / FTP server and my MJ. I just plug it into the jack that is usually connected to the phone companies demarcation. This connects all the phone jacks in my house. I bought a cheap UPS that will give me an hour of power in case of blackout. My only concern is that my USB from the laptop didn't have enough juice to power the entire house but it seems to be working. If power was a problem I could have bought a dedicated USB hub that had it's own power.

Hope this helps.

MR_D

[ibcradio]

Thanks. That was pretty much the setup I was going to use. I would need to power three phones.

[shif99]

Hi, It works. I have the same set up as Mr_Dasher. MJ has enough power for 4 cordless phones ( 1 of them Base+3 units ) and the TIVO box. Cancel my Comcast Digital Phone a month ago.

[Boondocs]

http://www.phoneservicesupport.com/usin ... t-f10.html

[stroths]

Keep in mind you must have your phone wiring completely cut off from the telco. If you leave it connected, there will be some voltage that could fry your MJ.

I've been running this setup for years with various VOIP companies and it works fine. If your connection is DSL then you can't disconnect your phone wiring from the telco unless you run a separate run just for the DSL. I had to do this a while back when I had DSL. Now on FIOS so its not an issue.

[Matt9876]

It works fine Tiny HP computer XP sp3 and three hard wired phones

[tillithz]

just disconnect the line comming into your house from the telephone company. there is a customer side to the box/dmark and you can and have the right to cut the connection.

[CSILouisville]

Well I have to say I am impressed so far with MJ. I have installed the MJ as a service on a server and hard wired it to my Talkswitch Phone system. Works like a charm. I am now looking into ways to run up to 4 MJs on the same system to allow Small business to have 4 phone lines for under $100 a year.

[piusg]

This is exactly the setup I use in my house.

I have a Dell D600 laptop running Windows 2003 Server (it's the domain controller, file server, and antivirus server for the household, too).

I have AT&T DSL, but the telco connection terminates at my DSL modem. I'm fortunate enough to live in a newer house with a "media panel" and I plugged the POTS end of the magicJack into the input jack on the POTS distribution panel.

Vôila! Phone service all over the house! It works like a charm.

Putting magicJack on a server solves a couple of other problems, too: First, my server is pretty underutilized, so adding the burden of the magicJack is really no big deal--it isn't drawing horsepower away from anything else in a more important machine. Second, I don't have to look at those obnoxious magicJack ads.

I've been pretty happy with my magicJack so far.