magicJack and MagicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Hacks

gnimsh · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:24 am Post subject:

Tvland, can you tell us what you did to make the call quality better with Twinkle?

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tradertx · MagicJack User Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 36

On the following link, I found tons of Linux tutorials, including three devoted to configuring the quality of VOIP signals:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/

Here are those three:

Giving VoIP Traffic the Green Light, Part 1
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6266/1/

Giving VoIP Traffic the Green Light, Part 2
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6272/1/

Giving VoIP Traffic the Green Light, Part 3
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6275/1/

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I can judge whether there are useful clues therein to help our Linux--twinkle--MJ challenge.

gnimsh · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I'll take a look at those when I'm not drunk.

robatino · MagicJack Expert Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 97

Using these instructions, I have it working with Twinkle (thanks!). Reading the Twinkle Manual (version 1.3.2), I found that on the SIP server page, if an outbound proxy is used and it is identical to the Registrar, then the Registrar field can be left empty. So my User profile settings are:

User
SIP account
Your name: Firstname Lastname
User name*: Exxxxxxxxxx01 (replace x's by phone number)
Domain*: talk4free.com
SIP authentication
Authentication name: Exxxxxxxxxx01 (same as above)
Password: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (20-character MJ password)

SIP server
Outbound Proxy
x Use outbound proxy
Outbound proxy: proxy?.city.talk4free.com:5070 (where "?" is a small positive integer and "city" is a nearby city in the proxy list).

Voice mail
Voice mail address: xxxxxxxxxx (phone number)

with all other entries left at defaults.

jp10558 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

How do you find out your MagicJack password?

jp10558 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

Anyone know how to translate this for X-Lite? I can't install Twinkle on the EeePC...

gnimsh · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject:

Ugh. I tried xlite for linux and thought it was just horrible. I'd rather try to help you install twinkle on the EeePC than figure out xlite.

Let me know what OS you have running on the Eeepc and we can go from there.

jp10558 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

default install on the 4G (not surf). I believe it's Xandros.

gnimsh · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject:

I don't know how long you've been using Xandros, but I could definitely recommend that you install ubuntu on your EeePC. There is a netbook remix as well as straight ubuntu 8.10 that will work with the EeePC, there are deb packages available for twinkle in ubuntu.

To get you started, here's a link to what the ubuntu netbook remix can do: http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/nbr

and here's a link on how to install it all! http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_to_become_a_linux_netbook_poweruser

If you have no desire to install ubuntu (though I definitely think it will enhance your netbook experience) you could start with twinkle by looking at the instructions here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mfnboer/twinkle/index.html

You'll have to install the dependencies listed there before the program.

In the mean time I'll see if I can figure out xlite.

robatino · MagicJack Expert Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 97

I got concerned when I heard that some people had been booted for violating the TOS, since there seems to be no way to set the User-Agent in Twinkle. At present I'm using IPKall/FWD/dukaDIAL as primary phone service, and keeping the MJ service as backup.

jp10558 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

Well, I don't have an atom processor, so Ubuntu is out of the question. Plus, this is set up with other software, and I need it working. If this doesn't work, I'll just bring my Windows laptop as well...

Twinkle is pretty hard to figure out for me - it doesn't work from synaptic, and I can't double click -> next -> finish it on that website ... I have no idea if any of the versions of the dependancies will break Xandros, and some are not the version (QT is 4 for download) that Twinkle wants...

XLite was easy, double click and it ran...

gnimsh · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject:

AFAIK only one person has been caught because of that.

gnimsh · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject:

Whoa I did it.

SIP phone details for Xlite:

Click the button to the right of the "clear" button in the center of the xlite console. Choose system settings>SIP proxy>default.

Double click enabled, change to yes.
Display name: whatever you want.

Username: your proxy username
Authorization user: also your proxy username.
Password: Your sip password here
Domain/realm: UserDomain
SIP Proxy: proxy1.YourCityHere.talk4free.com
Out Bound proxy: proxy1.YourCityHere.talk4free.com:5070 (if your ProxyPort is different use that instead of 5070)
After this al the fields remain at default, change nothing.

gnimsh · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject:

jp10558, did you manage to get xlite working then via the setup I posted?

jp10558 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

It connected, but I guess bandwidth or the eee can't handle the connections well... Oh well, worth a try.