magicJack and MagicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Hacks

Darkman90808 · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 687

I've noticed a significant decrease in activity on the forum lately. Does this mean all the questions have been answered? Or, is MJ working the way it's supposed to for most folks?

I haven't had much time to fool with mine lately, but frankly, I lost patience and haven't had it plugged in, mostly 'cause my Moto Droid + Google Voice address most of my needs.

Anyone care to opine?

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newtoncd · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:28 am Post subject: Re: What Does It Mean?

For me, now that I have purchased the Aspire Revo and magicFeatures, magicJack easily rivals our old service from Comcast; I am very pleased with the service.
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sabresfan · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:19 am Post subject:

It could be a combination of things. MJ may not be in as much of a demand now with some improvements in the economy. Also MJ may finally be working better for most with the upgrades to their network over the last couple of years. Either way most of us seemed to be pleased with the service and the price. This has to be the only voip service I can think of where 3rd party software (other than asterisk) can give you more features than the cable companies or pots. The other possibility that others have speculated here in the past is that MJ sales may have finally peaked and the market for cheap voip has become saturated. With the cable companies giving out discounts, Vonage upping the wars with their world plan, Nettalk giving away lifetime service for $99, Skype offering new plans for dirt cheap and Ooma releasing their telo within the past year people may be trying other voip companies now.

Matt9876 · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:40 pm Post subject:

I'm almost scared to say anything, with the exception of my cable ISP messing with my router the MJ service has never been better.

Running old HP mini tower computer XP SP3 with Linksys wireless card,MJ dongle,Belkin router with QoS set to maximize voice connections.

Warning:Be sure to clone a computers MAC address into your router if you are on any cable ISP and want your MJ to work as it should,I suspect this is a basic problem of getting MJ to work properly over a wireless/router connection.

cell14 · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:18 pm Post subject:

johnvan · MagicJack User Joined: 14 Mar 2010 Posts: 39

I haven't had any reason to post because mine has been working flawlessly now on my thin client. Calls always go through, no beeping, quality is like a landline. Only minor issue is I can't call out to some 1-800 numbers.
I never even check my thin client through VNC.

Darkman90808 · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 687

Seems like there's a fair consensus, at least from the small pool of respondants, that MJ is working well for folks. I'll plug mine in this a.m. and make some calls. (I spent the majority of my weekend squirreling around upgrading to the pre-release version of 2.2 for my Droid.)

Thanks for the comments....

Nobody beats the Whiz! · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 26 Oct 2009 Posts: 559

Nobody beats the Whiz! · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 26 Oct 2009 Posts: 559

Paul777 · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject:

Yes I've noticed the forums are relatively quiet too. My MJ's worked right out of the box with a laptop and tower. I had some set up issues with some thin clients and even then it was not an issue with the MJ's.

So I would say the product works. For me fairly flawless for 3 months now on two MJ's. I was skeptical at first, but I am extremely happy with the quality of calls, flawless service and fantastic price !!

Would still like to have other features similar to Google Voice and Simulring (follow me), and would be great if it could work without a computer or thin client, but overall few issues here.
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Darkman90808 · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 687

Wow! I just got off a ten minute call to a friend and enjoyed stellar call quality. Since I'm in the greater Los Angeles area, I'm pleasantly surprised. Keeping my fingers crossed!

SIR****TMG · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:50 pm Post subject:

Mine has been working great

johnvan · MagicJack User Joined: 14 Mar 2010 Posts: 39

My call display is showing NAME and number all the time now. I didn't think that was supported. Nice bonus.

Matt9876 · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject:

Made several long calls today 58min,45min,28min not a single problem.

Going to build up two or three small MJ machines for family members and give them out as gifts this year.

I honestly feel the MJ service has matured into a real phone company. Smile

tony · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:13 am Post subject: Re: What Does It Mean?