How fast does internet need to be for magic jack to work

mattg3 · Post by **mattg3** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:46 pm

My wireless internet in my condo has download speed at 1.14 mbps and I can hear my callers fine but my upload speed is only 0.12 mbps and my callers complain my voice is always breaking up and they cant understand me.How fast does mbps speed need to be for magicjack to work properly?

hsweiss · Post by **hsweiss** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:23 pm

you need 80-100 Kbps up. See the magicJack FAQ at their home page and they talk about speeds.

Looks like you should be ok - but the question is what's the jitter? Run a jitter test and see if your connection is behaving. Plus your on a wireless connection so all bets are off because of issues with connection reliability.

What bandwidth speed is required to use magicJack?

Answer

A minimum bandwidth UPLOAD speed of 128 kb/s is required.

magicFox · Post by **magicFox** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:57 pm

For the Upstream you need 256k your only at 128k, All you have to do is on the MJ panel switch it to Aircard(3G) instead of Normal(High-Speed).

mattg3 · Post by **mattg3** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:00 am

thanks magic fox.

Kenny2469 · Post by **Kenny2469** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:10 am

I demonstrated MJ successfully to a friend through my laptop getting its internet tethered from my iPhone 3G and the quality was just the same as at home connected to my Cable internet...

hsweiss · Post by **hsweiss** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:49 pm

Kenny2469 wrote:I demonstrated MJ successfully to a friend through my laptop getting its internet tethered from my iPhone 3G and the quality was just the same as at home connected to my Cable internet...

That bad eh?

Sorry I just couldn't resist!

hsweiss · Post by **hsweiss** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:53 pm

magicFox wrote:For the Upstream you need 256k your only at 128k, All you have to do is on the MJ panel switch it to Aircard(3G) instead of Normal(High-Speed).

Not true - last fall I was overseas that offered free "high speed internet" at 100Kb or I could pay 20 euros for 1-2Mb bandwidth. I figured that most of the time I would be doing email and the 100Kb worked fine. But I also tried both Skype and MJ over that connection. Skype voice worked fine - forget about video though. MJ, at that time did not have the aircard switch but still worked just fine (dongle-less which worked back then) on the 100Kb link. 256Kb couldn't hurt, but its not needed. What is needed to ensure decent voice quality is low jitter.

Kenny2469 · Post by **Kenny2469** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:46 am

hsweiss wrote:
Kenny2469 wrote:I demonstrated MJ successfully to a friend through my laptop getting its internet tethered from my iPhone 3G and the quality was just the same as at home connected to my Cable internet...
That bad eh?

Sorry I just couldn't resist!

Muahaha.... I have yet to see any quality issues here....
We're all good....