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Mar30
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 There is a fairly nice secure web based user account management site, where you can purchase international minutes, which are of course not included in the miniscule $20 yearly cost. You can also set up call forwarding, though why you can’t do that from the softphone interface is beyond me. You can also pay your yearly license fee and manage your account email settings. It’s easy to use, but I have found the site down on more then one occasion. This can be a big problem if you need to adjust your call forward settings, since there is no other way to change them.
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Mar28
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Another really annoying feature is that when using the handset, the softphone pops up every time you get or make a call or even just hang up. While this is fine when you’re using the softphone and a headset, it...
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Mar27
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It would also be nice if you could set up more then one email. It would be great if you could set your MagicJack to send you a text message when someone calls. You wouldn’t be able to hear the...
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Mar25
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There is also no short message time limit. If you call and get my voice mail and hang up, I get a 1 or 2 second message emailed to me. Now if your MagicJack is unplugged it is nice to...
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The next problem I have is with the voice mail system in general. It’s very slow. It takes entirely too long to listen to your messages. If you plan on using the voice mail to email feature exclusively, then I...
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I recommended that they add a message indicator to the Windows tray icon so you would'nt have to look at the softphone to see if you have a nessage. Even more important would be a stutter tone on the phone and the...
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I’m going to wrap up my MagicJack review. It’s been 2 weeks since Magic suffered a major service outage. The service has returned to normal and everything is working ok. There are definitely some kinks to work out with the...
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Mar24
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NEC Unified Solutions, has launched a new website that gives a prerelease view at their new line of business telephone systems. Featuring the SV8100 and SV8300 telecommunications system, the new site Univerge360, has brochures and white papers, as well as virtual market...
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Mar21
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FCC has completed its auction of a new band of airwaves in the 700 MHz spectrum. The 700 MHz is currently being used by traditional of the air analog television. Next year all over the air television broadcasts will be...
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Mar19
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I found out recently that the $5 a month I am paying to Verizon Wireless for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Internet access is actually for the use of their WAP proxy server. There are several free WAP proxy services that...
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Mar18
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Youtube might be coming to your tube. Youtube is currently negotiating with Verizon to provide access to Youtube.com through Verizon’s FiOS fiber optic TV service. If you don’t have FiOS TV, you can still get Youtube.com on your TV with...
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Mar14
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In tests, Verizon boosted file transfer by as much as 600%."This test signifies a turning point in the history of peer-to-peer technology and ISPs," said Robert Levitan, chief executive of file-sharing company Pando Networks Inc. "It will definitely show ISPs...
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One of the big problems with peer to peer is that the connections are more or less random. You could be download a song from someone thousands of miles away even though someone down the street has the same file...
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Suddenly Verizon has bucked the trend in a significant way. Teaming with researchers at Yale University and a group of companies that make peer to peer file-sharing software, Verizon has devised a unique and brilliant plan to enable faster downloads...
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My MagicJack has returned to normal. I’m even getting my voice mails sent to me emails again. I’m going to pause my review briefly because of an exciting new development that I want to share. Over the past few months,...
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Mar13
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Well, my Magicjack seems to be working better now, except the voice mail to email is still down. It’s interesting that the outage happened while I was talking about 911 services. This exposes a serious problem with VoIP services in...
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Well my MagicJack is back working again; at least most of it is working. The MagicJack voice mail seems to be having some problems. Some calls are not going into voice mail, they are just ringing and ringing or ringing...
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I’m afraid I’m going to have to take a hopefully short break from my MagicJack review because after using my MagicJack for the past few weeks, it suddenly died on me. I went to MagicJack.com and tried to get some...
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Mar12
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However, MagicJack has come up with a fantastic solution for the enhanced 911 problem. MagicJack lets you set up multiple phycial addresses. There is a drop down box on the bottom of the softphone that lets you choose at which...
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Mar11
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The only caveat to selecting a phone number relates to enhanced 911 emergency services. During the registration process, you have to select a physical address that will be transmitted to 911 operators if you call 911 from your MagicJack. The...
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The first time you plug in the adapter you have to register with MagicJack. During the registration process you select a phone number, or at least you select the area code and exchange you want to you. You have your...
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Mar10
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The MagicJack adapter also comes with a handy 4 inch USB extension cord in case you don’t have room to plug the adapter right into your PC. The adapter is also a USB flash drive. MagicJack has cleverly put all...
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You do have to buy the MagicJack adapter, which is $20. So that makes your 1st year of service $40, but only $20 per year afterwards. Again, that’s $20 per year, not per month. When I first read that I...
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Since I started writing this blog I’ve received a bunch of new phones, services, and various gizmos to test out and review. Well last month I got a very exciting new service to try. It’s called MagicJack. MagicJack is a...
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There is a fairly nice secure web based user account management site, where you can purchase international minutes, which are of course not included in the miniscule $20 yearly cost. You can also set up call forwarding, though why you can’t do that from the softphone interface is beyond me. You can also pay your yearly license fee and manage your account email settings. It’s easy to use, but I have found the site down on more then one occasion. This can be a big problem if you need to adjust your call forward settings, since there is no other way to change them.
