MajicJack and series 1 TIVO

On 2008-12-17 16:32:45 -0600, john.hartshorn RemoveThis @yahoo.com said:

> Has anyone tried using MajicJack to have their series 1 TIVO phone
> home? I
> currently have a VOIP connection provided by my cable company (CASS
> Communications), and it works fairly well if I force the call late at
> night
> when internet traffic is low. MajicJack would be considerably cheaper
> if it
> works.
>
> John

I use Vonage @19.95/month for 500 minutes, which is always much more
than I ever use. It's always on, whether a computer is turned on or
not. Incoming calls when the system is down is handy, too, and Vonage
has its own voicemail service included in the price.

Googling MagicJack, I found:

http://www.voipphoneservices.org/magicjack-voip-phone-review.html?gcli...OG24MbQ

which

said:

Magic Jack ONLY works on your PC or Laptop. That means to use your
Magic Jack phone, you need your computer ON 24/7.

You won't receive incoming calls on your MagicJack if you computer is off.
Magic Jack DOES NOT offer calls outside of USA. You still need another
service to make international long-distance calls. Who want two
different phone services?

Magic Jack call quality will vary based on your internet connection,
thats means you might not get the best quality all the time.

Magic Jack DOES NOT provide any Customer Support Service (No
Phone/Email) that means if your Magic Jack doesn't work, you are SCRWD.

MagicJack's EULA(Legal Agreement) says it will spy on you and force you
into arbitration. Magic Jack has built-in Advertisements which will
basically hijack your PC.

Magic Jack does not work on Linux or Mac.

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It depends on your phone usage and your need for reliability.

BlownFuse wrote:
> On 2008-12-17 16:32:45 -0600, john.hartshorn DeleteThis @yahoo.com said:
>
>> Has anyone tried using MajicJack to have their series 1 TIVO phone
>> home? I
>> currently have a VOIP connection provided by my cable company (CASS
>> Communications), and it works fairly well if I force the call late at
>> night
>> when internet traffic is low. MajicJack would be considerably cheaper
>> if it
>> works.
>>
>> John
>
> I use Vonage @19.95/month for 500 minutes, which is always much more
> than I ever use. It's always on, whether a computer is turned on or
> not. Incoming calls when the system is down is handy, too, and Vonage
> has its own voicemail service included in the price.
>
> Googling MagicJack, I found:
>
> http://www.voipphoneservices.org/magicjack-voip-phone-review.html?gcli...OG24MbQ
>
>
Did you see that that site is selling an alternate service called
JoiPhone, and therefore they have reasons to lie about MagicJack?

> Magic Jack ONLY works on your PC or Laptop. That means to use your Magic
> Jack phone, you need your computer ON 24/7.

How is this a problem? My computer is on 24/7 now, and it was before I
bought MagicJack.

>
> You won't receive incoming calls on your MagicJack if you computer is
off.

That's false. When your MagicJack is not working, there is a voicemail
service which will send you an email with an audio attachment of the
message that was left.

> Magic Jack DOES NOT offer calls outside of USA. You still need another
> service to make international long-distance calls. Who want two
> different phone services?

False. MagicJack offers calls to/from Canada as part of the base
package. It offers calls to Europe for a low additional cost.


> Magic Jack call quality will vary based on your internet connection,
> thats means you might not get the best quality all the time.

This is true of all VOIP services.

> Magic Jack DOES NOT provide any Customer Support Service (No
> Phone/Email) that means if your Magic Jack doesn't work, you are SCRWD.

I don't know about that. When I had trouble getting it working
initially, I went to the web site and was directed to an area that
offered me an updated software version. Since then I've had no trouble.

> MagicJack's EULA(Legal Agreement) says it will spy on you and force you
> into arbitration. Magic Jack has built-in Advertisements which will
> basically hijack your PC.

When you have the MagicJack window open, it does display ads inside that
window. No interference with my PC occurs. The "hijack" statement is
nonsense.


> Magic Jack does not work on Linux or Mac.

I don't know. Given the other erroneous statements on this site, I
wouldn't be surprised if this one was false too.

> ------------------------------------
> It depends on your phone usage and your need for reliability.

That is true of all phone services.

Dave S.

> On 2008-12-17 16:32:45 -0600, john.hartshorn.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com said:
>
>> Has anyone tried using MajicJack to have their series 1 TIVO phone
>> home? I
>> currently have a VOIP connection provided by my cable company (CASS
>> Communications), and it works fairly well if I force the call late at
>> night
>> when internet traffic is low. MajicJack would be considerably
>> cheaper if it
>> works.
>>
>> John

have you considered a plan B?
First, does your s1 allow network instead of phone? (I have a few s2's and
they do, i've seen mods for some s1's, but they never say for all )
Does your cable co voip phone modem have an ethernet connection? (mine does
from comcast)
at any rate, some of the cable co voip modems have an ethernet connection
that can be cabled to things like puters/Tivo's/wap routers (for wireless
with internet access)... At any rate, may be worth a few seconds of
looking/thinking to see if you may be able to do it without needing a
phone.....