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I am thinking of getting rid of my land line to save $50 a month (I am living paycheck to paycheck right now). My DSL meets the speed requirements. I hardly ever talk on the phone, anyways.
I am thinking of getting rid of my land line to save $50 a month (I am living paycheck to paycheck right now). My DSL meets the speed requirements. I hardly ever talk on the phone, anyways.
I have read mixed reviews of it.
Don't know much about Magic Jack, but we have VoIP. Just a $50 investment on an OBI, then everything is free after that. The computer doesn't have to be on, and you don't even have to be in the same room with the computer.
We have six cell numbers in an extended family plan (family members live in different states all over the country), but I'm cancelling one of them (my own) at the end of this month, because I have not used my cell for more than five months now since we have the VoIP.
Just a $50 investment on an OBI, then everything is free after that. The computer doesn't have to be on, and you don't even have to be in the same room with the computer.
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That, and an $11 cordless phone from Wal-Mart, that's all we spent. After that, all calls to all numbers in the US are free. No monthly service charge. No expense, no bill, none whatsoever. We dial directly from the phone, exactly the same way as a regular land line, not through the computer. We receive calls from every source without involving in any kind of network. We've used the phone in the backyard, by the pool, etc. as long as it's within a certain radius of the computer. The computer, as I mentioned above, does not have to turn on for the connection.
We could have an answering machine to go with it, but we chose not to. We use Google Voice for answering service instead, and pick up the messages through our gmail (or by dialing a voice mail number, but I never did.)
We'll move across the country next year, and the VoIP will continue to work everywhere we live.
Last edited by Ol' Wanderer; 09-13-2011 at 10:22 PM..
I dumped my (more expensive) VOIP service once my contract ended and have been using MagicJack exclusively for the last 8+ months. Works fine for me. I use Google Voice as my main phone # and have incoming calls routed to my MJ line. Attached to the MJ dongle is my cordless phone system (4 handsets). You need an "always-on" computer to run MJ. $20/year is a good deal.
I dumped my (more expensive) VOIP service once my contract ended and have been using MagicJack exclusively for the last 8+ months. Works fine for me. I use Google Voice as my main phone # and have incoming calls routed to my MJ line. Attached to the MJ dongle is my cordless phone system (4 handsets). You need an "always-on" computer to run MJ. $20/year is a good deal.
We did not sign any contract with Google VoIP, and there is no cost (asides from the one-time $50 OBi) at all. Call waiting, caller ID, and answering service are included. That's more than we need, and the price ($0) is right.
I had MJ for less than a year and I hated it. I had a brand new computer and high speed internet cable. For some reason it just didn't like to work for me. My computer liked to turn itself off "to save energy" or it would reboot a lot all by itself. That was a big pain in the butt, because MJ doesn't work unless your computer is on all the time.
Then on the days that my computer wasn't too blame, I could hear people just fine, but they couldn't hear me. It drove me crazy more than it helped me. I'll never use it again and I still have it in a drawer somewhere. Save yourself $40 and look into something else with better reviews.
I had never heard of Google Voice - I will check it out!
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