…but never as a "permanent" solution. Got it in case we traveled overseas or to make calls to Europe from the states. IMHO, I don't think it would work unless you are planning on keeping your computer on all day and night.

The quality of the calls was very good. We stopped using it because we didn't use it often and when it came time to renew, they were asking much more money than when we started. Since we didn't use it, we got rid of it.

a computer at all. It just plugs into the wall.

http://magicjack.com/plus-v05/

MagicJack Plus.

My husband says it would have the same quality issues as the one plugged directly into the computer.

The quality of the call isn't the greatest but that's what you get for cheap.

If there's a lot going on with the computer at the time of the call the voice quality is garbled or broken up. For 19.95 a year VOIP isn't too bad a way to go.

I use it for long distance calls to Canada and I make sure that I don't have a lot going on so it doesn't 'lose packets' ...

All in all it's not a bad deal.

aA

Not kidding

I really just want to keep my home phone number. If I cancel my home phone in a few years my number will be reassigned to someone else. Then I also have to go thru every single credit card and shopper bonus card and anything else and swap my old phone number out to my cell phone. And I have good credit so it's not like I'm hiding from the bill collectors, but I still would rather not give out my cell phone else that number will get on 2 trillion calling lists.

I really just want the right to keep my home phone number even if I never actually use it. So right now I'm paying about $350 a year to keep a number I never use. I'd like to get that down to about $50 a year or less.

to a magic jack account?

My little brother has been on magic jack only for years. And now with that thing upstream a nbit that doesn;t need a computer, it seems like a pretty good deal. Especially since you don't care about the call quality on that...

Every time I speak with her, there are echoes on the line. She is happy with it though.

No problems, works great.

Editing to say there are no quality issues. Excellent, clear, stable.

and I'm assuming you have no other landline other than the magic jack - correct?

You can take your old phone number to the New magicJackPLUS by setting up our porting procedure. So easy, but so valuable too. If you want to get a new Phone Number anywhere in the country, you can do that and even get a vanity number too. So many options, no wonder 8 million people have gotten a magicJack.


*we got our phone number from them. We didn't use an existing one*

We can't get cable, though I can see the lines at our neighbors house down the hill, so our broadband is via dsl.

The MJ is our only phone system in the house, and we keep our computers online all the time. If we are offline, or don't pick up, the incoming calls go to our email.

Like you, the last time I used my home phone was to find my cell phone. The people I want to talk to have my cell #. Anyone else gets my home phone. I haven't answered my home phone in months.

had the hard line for awhile but Magic Jack works about 95 percent of the time so that is good enough for us. We also have cell phones which the family has anyway. I see no quality issue, when its working the sound is fine. I guess alot of it will depend on how good the computer is that will house the units. If you have a really old computer then the quality will suffer. Of course you now can get around it by not using a computer. Save the 340 year and try it. If you hate it you can always turn on the hard line again, but like me you probably won't.

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I've used it for almost 4 years. We used to have the one hooked up to the PC, but now we use the new product that does not need the PC. The reception is standard compared to other VOIP units. It works great. The only drawback, you cannot call fee based phone services. While its good because you can not call 900 pay calls on your phone, it might be bad because you can't call these pay services.

It's true your computer must be on but that was ok with me because it made me in control of it's use

My year is about to run out and I'm switching over to the plus which doesn't need to be plugged in to the computer

Their service is going up and the plus is more expensive anyway. You can find a deal on the plus. I got mine for half price. I think $35.00 and that includes the first year service. It will be more after that, but buying multiple years gives a deep discount. I think the current discount is $99.00 for 5 years

It's cheap enough, so give it a try. Plus it sends voicemail to your email and has a bunch of other perks. Go to their website for the latest information. And they give you a 30 day no risk money back guarantee