Any ideas for internet phone? Magic Jack?

Vanity | 1-20-2009 | Frantzie

[Frantzie]

Sorry to post a vanity but I am looking at VOIP for the small office. I was going to go with Packet 8 where you buy the phone at Office Depot. $24.95 a month and you can add more lines at $4.95 a month.

I do not like the people behind Vonage - the Citrons. The family got fined heavily by the SEC in their last venture with their online brokerage.

A relative has magic Jack for $40. $20 for the jack, $20 for the first year. $20 a year after that. It is for the office.

I also need to switch my router. I bought a D-Link DIR-615 was QoS enhancement to improve the response for the VOIP. I am worried about trying to switch over the old Netopia router to the D-Link.

Any suggestions?

[Pining_4_TX]

My son tried it for a couple of weeks. At first it seemed to work pretty well, except for an occasional beep. However, he decided against keeping it, because he started to have problems with static, the sound quality, and call reception. Hope this helps.

I was disappointed, too, because I really wanted to kick Cox telephone to the curb.

[Catholic Iowan]

For calls in the U.S., are there ever any additional charges for the Magic Jack aside from your annual fee? I thought I had read somewhere that the only time you had free calling was when calling/receiving calls from other Magic Jack customers, but that you are charged a per minute fee if you call/receive calls from people without Magic Jack. That didn’t sound right from other things I’ve read, but since you actually use the Magic Jack, you would know from first hand experience.

[WildcatClan]

There are no additional fees within the US to you. If someone is calling you long distance then there would or could be a fee to them depending on what they are using. You pay up front. I went for the $99/5years and that includes the magicjack. I think my phone bill turns out to be something less than $2 a month :)

[tophat9000]

Magic Jack is not a stand alone VOIP solution but you have to have it connect to PC that up and connect to the Internet

[politicket]

Ping for later reading...

[WildcatClan]

Heh. It wasn’t on the FAQ and I went to the help-line several times and they gave me the same ineffective remedy each time. We figured it out on a site independent of MJ for people who were not satisfied with MJ. When we were sure we could resolve the problem, we wondered why MJ wasn’t giving customers that information. I am glad they finally have it on their FAQ now. The last time I went to the help-line, just before I had lost my patience they told me it was my phone interfering with MJ because it was cordless. :))

[TigersEye]

Remember we were talking about Magic Jack? Looks like it might work for some people.

[pandoraou812]

Yes it does. But for the business phone I am keeping Verizon although I hate them. After getting slammed by them with USBI I don't trust them. However I now have a block ( or so they tell me, still don't trust them) so I can't be slammed. If my power goes out I always have that land line.