RE: Magic Jack
- From: "Donna Miller and Carman" <dmiller64@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:25:08 -0500
I just use a regular phone and Magic Jack does great. I love it.
Remember, cars aren't the only things recalled by their maker!
Donna Miller And Leader Dog Carman
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Kerri
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:35 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Magic Jack
Hi, I'm on TELUS too and have absolutely awesome call quality. The secret is
to get a good cordless hone.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <sieghard@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 8:19 AM
Subject: Magic Jack
>I purchased a Magic Jack (the device and 1-year subscription) back in
>February. I am in BC and have a very reliablea nd fast Telus ADSL
>connection. The setup was OK to do with Jaws and it is accessible, but the
>call quality is not there. For calls here in Canada and North America as a
>whole is so so, but not near the quality you get with Skype. I am
>originally from Germany and still call there a lot so I ended up buying $10
>long distance credit and when I made my first call to Germany my friend
>could at first not hear me for about 5 seconds, he kept asking if anybody
>was there. Then he could here me, but said it was absolutely terrible and
>about 5 seconds later the call dropped. I called him back on Skype and the
>call was crystal clear (Skype-to-phone calls to Europe are actually even
>better than within North America).
>
> If you are mostly calling in Canada I strongly recommend you use Skype,
> for about $30 Canadian (if you prepay) you can buy a 1-year subscription
> for unlimited calls within Canada and the US. You can also pay monthly and
> I think it is $2.95/month. If you have a cell phone and some sort of "My
> Faves" plan where you can call 5 numbers anywhere in Canada as much as you
> want for $15/month (that is the deal from Telus) you can add the canadian
> Skype to Go number (I think it's somewhere in Ontario) to that plan. I put
> it on a speed dial and if I want to make a call from my cell phone that
> isn't covered by my normal plan I call that number and then simply dial
> the number I want to call. My cell phone is registered with Skype To Go so
> I don't have to enter any access codes at all. You can even have the most
> called numbers as speed dials and instead of dialing a complete long
> distance number you simply dial 1 or 2 or whatever and press Pound. The
> call then goes through Skype and is covered by my subscription. I just
> added that number to my favourite list and tried it with my friend in
> Germany and he could not tell I wasn't calling him directly.
>
> If you don't want to be tied to your computer for Skype calls, there are
> many devices out there which give you options. There are USB adapters just
> like what the Magic Jack is which let you plug a regular phone into the
> adapter which you can then use to make calls. Don't forget, with Magic
> Jack your comnputer also still needs to be on all the time if you want to
> make calls. Oh, and by the way, if you want a phone number from Magic Jack
> you can also only get a few numbers in major centres like Vancouver,
> Toronto etc. I can't remember all the cities they offered, but it wasn't
> too many and I live in a small town in northern BC so I couldn't even get
> a local number. I have a plan on my cell which has unlimited incoming
> minutes, so I don't care how many people call me on it.
>
> I also tried other Voip services like Voip Stunt, Voip Buster and
> Freecall, they are essentially all the same and you can use them either by
> installing their own client on the computer or by using something like the
> ExpressTalk client from NCH Software which you have to buy for a fairly
> inexpensive price and which supports all of them. You can also get a
> device like the Linksys SPA3102 which hooks up to your router, then you
> configure it through a web interface with the information from your Voip
> supplier and then just hook up a regular telephone. Here you don't even
> need to have the computer on because it is a network device. You then need
> a credit of 10 Euros or whatever (these companies I mentioned are from
> Europe) and with Voip STunt for example you have 4 months of free calling
> in North America and to many European countries after you buy the credit.
> After the 120 days they charge you 1 Euro Cent per minute for calls
> (that's about 1.35 canadian Cents which means your 10 Euro credit still
> gives you another 1000 minutes. The call quality on these isn't bad, but
> as I said, after trying out all of them and Magic Jack, I am back on Skype
> with an Unlimited World plan. You can, by the way, also get dual mode
> cordless phones which you can plug into your regular landline and into
> your router and you can then use the same phone for making and asnswering
> regular phone calls and Skype calls even when the computer is turned off.
>
> If you want to know more, e-mail me off list at sieghard@xxxxxxxxxx or
> call me on Skype. My user name is "SieghardW" and that is without the
> quotes of course.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sieghard
>
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