magicJack and MagicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Hacks

mjwhiz · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Posts: 3

Hello all,
I'm due to be charged for this thing tomorrow after finally ditching my landline phone and internet this past week, and right now I'm not happy.

Call quality was great until I went wireless. What I'm getting now is choppiness - the remote end not being able to follow me at all - and dropped connections within about 10 minutes.

Although my landlord put in a brand-new $200 multimedia router and I'm only right down the hall, I'm on wireless-g, he's a heavy gamer, and there I think lies the problem. Right now, while he's playing down the hall, I've got a 57 ms ping, 17.5 mbps download, and 2 mbps upload.

They say MJ works on ANY internet connection but dialup or satellite - yeah right - so what is the problem here?

I changed my computer's background services setting with really no effect.
Since it was fine through landline DSL, my first inclination before even thinking about anything else is to simply upgrade to wireless-n and hope that solves the problem, but I'd like to hear others' thoughts on this, so fire away!

Other peeves of mine that I've noticed over the past month since plugging this thing in:

1. My phone receiver hook has gone "sticky" with MJ and doesn't hang up unless clicked several times. Softphone would be faster to hang up, but I'm not making my calls through that. Any way to ameloriate this?

2. All calls, even local, must be dialed with area code. Is this particular to all VOIP, and is there any way around this? Would've been nice to know this going in.

3. It's really not compatible with forwarding from Google Voice if you want to use Google's voicemail for the transcription, due to lack of ring time adjustment. Google voicemail doesn't kick in until 25 seconds, which is longer than the 3 rings specified by MJ. Am I completely wrong here, or is there a way around this?

Many thanks to everyone who replies.

MJwhiz

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jaromesweeney · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 1

Hmm, it's definitely a tough situation that I don't exactly have the answers to bud. Wish I did, and I'd be happy to help, but the magic jack definitely has a few flaws here and there still.

Hope you can figure a few of those out, I'm interested to know about the area code questions, as well. Best of luck buddy.
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Darkman90808 · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 687

I've been probably one of MJ's biggest supporters but with all the problems since the last "Lucky You" upgrade, I've begun using sipgate and skype for my calls. I really like redpepper's Skyjack and Xlitejack plugins but even making calls on these causes the MJ to crash.

I like sipgate because it let's me spoof my Google Voice CID and there are no additional connection fees, but Skype seems to have a little nicer visual appeal.