John

One would have to look at female connection inside phone and the MJ to see the TWO shiny metal pieces of imbedded wire, running in tandem with the 6 groves of the telephonic female fitting on the phone.

Hope this is understood and that it helps someone. I found out the hard way, so pass it along.

Magic Jack is saying that they can’t have it installed
until November 15 2010.

Magic Jack has also known that they need to have
911 service in Canada for a very long time but has
thumbed their nose at the system and has not installed
it. Now it looks like Magic Jack is being ordered to have
911 service installed.

If Magic Jack fails to have 911 service installed
in Canada by October 15 2010 the CRTC is saying
that they will identify the Local Exchange Carriers
(LECs) and / or local service providers that are
providing network resources and Canadian phone numbers
with the intention of disconnecting service to Magic Jack
if they don’t get it installed by October 15 2010.

The CRTC made a ruling April 4 2005 that all
VOIP providers must provide 911 service, more
than 5 years ago and still Magic Jack doesn’t have
911 service on their service.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com100/2005/r050404.htm

A copy of the CRTC document is located bellow.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/b516fde/n/DOCS-_1438825-v4-VOIP_9-1-1_magicJack_staff_order.pdf

(Our local phone company runs a monopoly and doesn’t let the other phone companies come into the area…so it’s theirs or else…so that’s why it seemed like such an attractive solution. There’s a sucker born every minute folks.)

Well anyway, long story short, there’s a consumer reporter on some Tulsa news station who tests out these as seen on TV things every Thursday. They said this thing worked great…

Mom would not give up until she had one, since we’d used our cell phone all this time. (But there are days when it won’t work everywhere and it’s good to have a backup plan right?) OK, so they finally became available at Wal-Mart. I installed the thing. It was NOT easy to install at all, on either my brand new laptop, OR my desk top computer. Took over an hour on each one…and before someone says I was probably not doing something right, you’re wrong…because I did exactly what it asked me to do to the letter. It took nearly an hour to get the thing to work. I plugged the phone into it when it was ready and I got my (NON LOCAL) number…it worked but there was an extremely severe delay. This happened on four computers, as well as trying out different kinds of phones, including the softphone that comes with it. The person could hear me but the delay was so bad, they would hang up thinking I’d stopped talking, or not respond to them…that makes having a normal conversation possible. And when it wasn’t delaying it was cutting out. I got on their website, checked it out and then found out that what they don’t tell you is that if you have satellite internet, like I do from Wild Blue, you will get delays like this. MJ claims that the delays are due to the fact that satellite based broadband is not fast enough to support the software in MJ. I beg to differ. I did a speed test on both my computer as well as my modem and it’s almost instantaneous…and downloading the thing as well as trying to figure it out ate up about 25 gigs of bandwidth! So, that’s $40 down the drain, not to mention the slow down I got from my internet provider for going over the bandwidth limit. Yeah…

Here’s the thing. If you can get the thing to work, fine and dandy. But it is NOT for everyone and if you’re really wanting to save money on calls, buy a pre paid phone card or get an economical cell phone calling plan…and don’t talk too much. There’s other ways to communicate that aren’t as frustrating. I guess it might even work well for travel as well, provided you can find a computer abroad that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to pay for bandwidth.

Let me clear some doubts here.. magicjack is a hardware which has phone jack as input…

You do not need a regular phone line. Just plug in a phone set.. there is no need to have a regular home phone line… when you connect a stand alone phone hardware to the majicjack you will be able to dial from that stand alone phone set(I am repeating there is no regular landline connected anywhere).. Dial anywhere in NORTH AMERICA..

Also.. if you do not have a phone set.. just plug in ur magicjack in USB of your desktop or laptop.. it will configure your dialer software and you will then be able to make calls.

You can also go to MENU to configure if you want to use your laptop mic and speakers or plug in a headphone with mic to enjoy some privacy.. :P

Matt