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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 26, 2016 20:05:47 GMT -5
I have had a "magic jack go" device for about a year now, and I've been pretty happy with it. It is a small VOIP device that comes with one year of prepaid phone service, including unlimited calling to the US, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. You connect it to your internet, and can connect it's output to existing phone wiring, and use existing landline phones with it. (after you disconnect the house phone wiring from the telco circuit). Up till now, we have had to keep two telco landlines for my business, and have used the magic jack as a backup, but I plan to port over one of my regular numbers and drop the telco landline. This should save me several hundred dollars a year. It also comes with an app for your smartphone that lets you make and receive calls to that same number using cellular data or wi-fi. That feature bailed my ass out of a jam on a jobsite the other night. The site had no cell reception, and I needed to work with tech support at the actual equipment location. I used the site's wifi and the magic jack app and successfully completed the job. If you have cable, fiber, or DSL internet at home, I suggest checking it out. Right now, you can get a magic jack go, with a years calling, for $35, instead of the regular price of $59.95. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than a land line at home, and using it with a smartphone gives you a second line. I am not affiliated with magic jack, and don't make any money off them, but I think it's a pretty good product, and can be a real money saver. |
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Post by songstarliner on Oct 26, 2016 20:55:55 GMT -5
Floyd, I've been thinking about getting magic jack: I'm broke as a joke, but need phone service for my new place. Do I have to set it up myself? The website seems to suggest that you just plug it in and hey presto! phone service, but you're talking about disconnecting wiring and I ... shouldn't do that on my own.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 26, 2016 22:05:33 GMT -5
songstarliner It's plug and play. You go to the website to activate it. You don't have to disconnect anything unless you want to use the existing phone wires in the house. I've had this one just sitting here connected directly to the magic jack. It will work with a cordless phone, too. Hooking it to the internal wiring is nice if you want phones in several rooms, but it's not necessary. If you want to hook it to the house phone wires, your phone box where the landline enters the house should have a jack and plug for your line. Just unplug it like you would unplug a phone from the wall. Ill try to answer any questions you have about it, or hooking it up. I just renewed my magic jack, and discovered you can get 5 years for $100. Not too shabby. We dumped the satellite for a roku last year, and are getting Netflix and Hulu for about $20, as well as lots of free channels, instead of the $120 we were paying for satellite, and dropping one landline is next. We may drop the other and get a second magicjack, if we can still get out DSL reasonable without phone service, and we can use it for GF's work. Then I'm going to take a look at our cell phone bill, and see if we can get a better deal there.
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Post by ganews on Oct 30, 2016 19:12:52 GMT -5
Floyd, I've been thinking about getting magic jack: I'm broke as a joke, but need phone service for my new place. Do I have to set it up myself? The website seems to suggest that you just plug it in and hey presto! phone service, but you're talking about disconnecting wiring and I ... shouldn't do that on my own. Surely you could use free Google Phone service? Wifemate has this secondary to her regular cell number. It's a phone number that connects to your Gmail, and you can access it from your mobile or computer. The only difference between that and your regular cell is that a smartphone rings and you pick it up like a phone, and this rings and you have to open your phone and select it like a text message. So, pretty painless if you've got a computer with internet access. I think you can also choose numbers, so you could be 555-FOR-SONG. |
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Post by songstarliner on Oct 30, 2016 20:41:39 GMT -5
Floyd, I've been thinking about getting magic jack: I'm broke as a joke, but need phone service for my new place. Do I have to set it up myself? The website seems to suggest that you just plug it in and hey presto! phone service, but you're talking about disconnecting wiring and I ... shouldn't do that on my own. Surely you could use free Google Phone service? Wifemate has this secondary to her regular cell number. It's a phone number that connects to your Gmail, and you can access it from your mobile or computer. The only difference between that and your regular cell is that a smartphone rings and you pick it up like a phone, and this rings and you have to open your phone and select it like a text message. So, pretty painless if you've got a computer with internet access. I think you can also choose numbers, so you could be 555-FOR-SONG. I need phone service so that I can call my son when I'm at work, and more importantly, he can call me/call 911 if he needs help - he doesn't have a cell phone. Of course, he IS always online, so maybe I should think about that. |
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