Magic Jack, Phone Service

[BIG WORM]

does this BS work?
If so, how well?
REPS given for answers...

[yogi08]

no

[GTScoob]

Isnt that almost the same thing as Skype or voice-over IP? The commercials seemed marketed to old people who dont know what computers and the internet are capable of.

[YoTa_BoX]

Clark howard swears by the thing!! He says it works like a dream.

Yes there will be times when your internet is inter feared with and the signal will drop a bit and from what Clark says it sounds like your in a big pipe and you can hear your self . But from what he said its very minimal. I would do it but im not home enough to even have a home phone so.


Oh if you dont know who Clark Howard is...here is his website.

http://clarkhoward.com/

[B18c1Turboed]

My parents have at their vacation house in mexico, Works awesome. They call me daily and have a 770 phone number, so it isnt long distance even calling them in mexico.

[SRCRX]

I have a friend that has one, It drops calls every other time I talk to him, nothing
but problems.

[thecrazyone]

my dad runs a large home office, and we all use it, never had problems and saved tons of money. :goodjob:

[con]

hmmmm, I'm considering ordering one of these....

I currently use Vonage @ $21/month after taxes and crap and being that I rarely use the home phone this may save me a few more pennies a year.

Only pitfalls I've read so far are that it piggy backs on your pc and uploads info from the numbers you dial to create popup ads. Hell, nearly every website you log on to does that already. That may also create additional leaks for SPAM to all of the people you dial once they sell records.

Think I'll give it a few more months and check more consumer feedback to see how things play out.

[Julio]

is worth it.. I got it.. .. 40 for the little unit... and 19 bucks a year after the 1st year... had for almost 2 years now.

[Steven2]

I've had a lot of trouble with it. Im running it on a computer that needs to be cleaned up though. I suspect that on a healthy computer it would work great. When i get this computer right ill let you know if that was the problem.

[seanrg1116]

Clark howard swears by the thing!! He says it works like a dream.

Yes there will be times when your internet is inter feared with and the signal will drop a bit and from what Clark says it sounds like your in a big pipe and you can hear your self . But from what he said its very minimal. I would do it but im not home enough to even have a home phone so.


Oh if you dont know who Clark Howard is...here is his website.

http://clarkhoward.com/

x2 he talks about that damn thing everyday. just like he does a roth IRA

[toxxxic]

We have one for our office line...

It definately works... the sound quality isnt as great as a regular phone line though. but it works!

[imbosile]

"Save more, spend less and avoid rip-offs!"

[JDMEK18]

I own 1 myself and it works nice.. I've had a problem here or there but nothing a reboot of the wks would't fix.. Awesome product and i'll use it as long as they offer it..
pays for itself in the first month - true statement!

[LQQKITZME]

Yea It works a buddy of mine has it