Comments on: A Full Year Of Phone Service, Including Long Distance, For $19.99?

By: david

david — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:46:48 +0000

Thanks for the report Paul, glad I had not gotten around to trying it out. I think I will stick with Vonage for now!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:09:47 +0000

Final (I hope) Update:
After about 6 months of the magicjack i can say I will not be renewing my service. I have Cox broadband with plenty of bandwidth. even with that my sound quality has gone down hill over the last couple months. Its unusable 50% of the time now. their tech support has not been able to solve the issue. MY skype phone has worked flawless. Always rings when i get as call. Always connects when I initiate a call. Sounds is fine. no one has ever complained. for $3 a month and $30 for a # which now can be displayed when making a call is $66 compared to $19. So skype wins this one. Yes I know the device cost $20 to start but my skype phone cost more then that so I’ll exclude one time hardware costs. the other good thing with the skype phone i don’t need to leave a pc on.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:55:40 +0000

If the loading your talking about is when you first plug in the device then there is no issue. the majicjack software has to load before it will work. there is no way around that. if it is somewhere else I’ve never experienced it.
If you call your #. Enter in you pass code. hit * a couple times to get to the main menu and choose option 0 mailbox options. you can set your personal greeting there.

By: KATRINA

KATRINA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:36:28 +0000

IM CURRENTLY USING THE MAGICJACK AND IT DOES HAVE A FEW GLITCHES THAT I THINK THE COMPANY NEEDS TO FIX. WHEN MJ ADVERTISED THEIR PRODUCT THEY DIDN’T TELL ME THAT I WOULD HAVE DELAYS (DURING LOADING) WHEN TRYING TO ANSWER CALLS, YOU ONLY CORRESPOND WITH THE COMPANY ONLINE, THEY HAVE A QUICK FIX THAT SCANS THE SYSTEM FOR ERRORS AND IT ALWAYS COMPLETES THE PROCESS AND TELLS ME THAT EVERYTHING IS OK BUT ITS NOT. I HAVENT HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH VOICEMAIL BUT YOU ARENT ALLOWED TO ADD A PERSONAL GREETING. I GUESS YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!

By: David

David — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:31:03 +0000

Skype requires a special USB phone, whereas MJ doesn’t. Also, at $3 a month, it’s almost twice as much as MJ is.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:10:19 +0000

Yes but no. When skype first offered unlimited US land line calling for I think it was $20 I signed up for the year. It was ok. I never found a reasonably price / usable skype phone or USB 2 skype convert so i could use a standard cordless phone. I do have a skpe in bound # that I use on my notebook with a blue tooth headset.

By: Luke F

Luke F — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:44:55 +0000

Have you tried the Skype for $3 a month that lets you make unlimited calls?

By: David

David — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:49:19 +0000

So it probably works as well as any other VOIP service – my Vonage sometimes drops calls and the like, but for $20 a year, I would gladly put up with a few glitches here and there.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:45:42 +0000

Have it. Works fine. Not perfect. a couple times voice mail has not answered. Once they had a issue and when someone called there was silence. No ringing, no busy, no voice mail no static either . For the price its fine. I’ve used it for job interviews with no problem. On my vista machine prior to a software upgrade it was echoey. As with any IP based phone make sure you have the bandwidth. I have had issues when using bit torrent.

By: David

David — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:06:26 +0000

Thanks Darlene for the price info. However, Skype is only free for calling other computers, it is not free for making landline calls!