Sunday, September 28, 2008

How Does Magic Jack Work?

Magic Jack is what is called a VOIP (voice over IP)provide. According to Wikipedia,
Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP, IPA: /vɔɪp/) is a protocol optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet or other packet-switched networks. VoIP is often used abstractly to refer to the actual transmission of voice (rather than the protocol implementing it). This latter concept is also referred to as IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband, broadband telephony, and broadband phone


To be a little simpler, instead of running over your regular phone lines, MagicJack runs over the internet. The beauty of Magicjack is that the installation is so simple to use, and you can use the same phones that you were using before.

They have a little USB device that plugs into your computer, that you can plug your phones into.

However, even though it's so simple; there are a couple of things you might want to be careful about.

1) Make sure that you have a seperate internet line - if you are using DSL for your internet, and it's part of your phone line, you will have to get a seperate DSL line. Many phone companies have a seperate DSL service that you can get instead of the DSL and local phone service. For example, we bought AT&T's standalone DSL service at $20 / month with a 12 month service commitment.

Other options for Internet Service include cable internet from providers like comcast, satellite internet, or through your mobile carrier, like Verizon, Sprint or AT&T. However, these all cost above $35 / month.

2) Make sure you have enough phone cables to connect all of your phone lines around the house. You are going to have to connect all of the phones throughout your house to the USB cable.

If you only have one or two phones, it's fine, but over long distance, you're going to want to reline the house.

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3 comments:

Thomas McDonald said...

satellite internet providers will give you access to phone as well as internet so it will work similar to the magic jack.

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