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shari
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This is a great example of Nomads helping other nomads improve our quality of life....thanks again for turning us onto this great deal...so nice to
keep in touch with loved ones when we are so far away.
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bonanza bucko
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Please tell me if Magic Jack has degraded sound on the uplink via a Satellite Internet connection as some other VOIP telecom links do. The band width
on the uplink is usually only about 56KB/second while the downlink is usually about 5MB/seccond....so your voice on the US end if you are calling from
Baja is garbled.
SKYPE had that problem early on but it's better now...not perfect but OK. Would be nice if Magic Jack solved it.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bonanza bucko
Please tell me if Magic Jack has degraded sound on the uplink via a Satellite Internet connection as some other VOIP telecom links do. The band width
on the uplink is usually only about 56KB/second while the downlink is usually about 5MB/seccond....so your voice on the US end if you are calling from
Baja is garbled.
SKYPE had that problem early on but it's better now...not perfect but OK. Would be nice if Magic Jack solved it.
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I live not too far below you. BB, and the voice quality on my long distance calls is perfect. No break up...no lag. Whenever I want to know the
weather in the Phillipines, I just call my bank, WAMU. Voice quality is perfect, save for a
slight Tagalog accent.
OOPS...I see your reference to sat internet. Mine is a land line. Sorry.
[Edited on 7-3-2009 by DENNIS]
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astrobaja
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Hi,
I'd like to hear how it works on satellite internet as well. I have a Starband setup and when using Skype the inherent jitter and lag makes it
useless about 50% of the time, often even when the other end is intelligible they cannot hear me very well at all. So I'm wondering how it will work
compared to Skype.
Mike
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shari
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i dont think i works with satellite internet. When i talk on the phone via MJ, it is not like skypes one way converstations...it's like a real phone
call.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
i dont think i works with satellite internet. When i talk on the phone via MJ, it is not like skypes one way converstations...it's like a real phone
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I think it does but, not well. I've heard complaints here about lag time and break-up. I'll ask around and get back.
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SKIDS
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Shari, Great info. what type of internet service do you use ?
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MrBillM
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Magic Jack Works OK with Hughes Satellite
On the lowest level of purchase, although there are times when the Hughes Net slows down and there are breakups in the outgoing (upload) conversation.
At all times, the incoming sounds fine, but this is typical with Hughes (at least that level of service).
In any case, it is well worth the investment. In one instance, I needed to call a customer service line and I was on for about twenty minutes with NO
problems.
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ncampion
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Anybody have any experience with MJ use on a 3G internet connection?
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jorgie
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just did skype to black jack , Shari . they are away but the reception was very good , no way could i write fast enough to copy down the cell number
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larryC
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As far as MJ and sattelite, I have starband and tried MJ in January and it didn't work very well, but Skype didn't either for most people. Starband
has done something to the network since then and skype works alot of the time so I suspect MJ will also. For the low initial cost, if it doesn't work
at least you are not out too much money. Not sure what will happen when starband goes to the new satellite. In trying to help others get their skype
working I have found that if your computer is clogged with too much stuff that it slows it down too much, causing an already marginal service to be
unusable, meaning voip on starband. I don't know anything about Hughes but I suspect it would be a similar problem.
Larry
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tigerdog
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My question is, if you don't have a phone line to plug MJ into does it still work? So I would be sending/receiving directly from my laptop? If so,
what are the steps you have to take for that to work?
With Skype, for instance, I just plug my headphone into my laptop, dial the number and chat away. So with MJ, can I just use my laptop in a similar
way?
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larryC
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Tiger
MJ plugs into your USB port and then your phone plugs into the MJ.
Hope this helps,
Larry
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tigerdog
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Thanks Larry. Color me dense this morning...
So you have to actually have a phone to plug into? As opposed to simply a headset?
This would not be helpful to me when I'm traveling, then, since I often stay at places that do have WiFi but no phones and my only phone is a cell
phone. Guess I'll have to stick to Skype, which works but is becoming increasingly annoying and expensive (relatively speaking).
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comitan
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tigerdog
Just a phone any phone, not hooked into a line.
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dccf
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Shari,
Don't forget to put your MJ number on your website.
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tigerdog
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Thank you, comitan.
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RetiredGolf1
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So it seems like the mj is pretty easy to hook up. What about the extra "cost" having the pc on 24/7.. is that worth mentioning at all? My wife and
I are moving down to baja hopefully sometime soon this year and I would really like to figure all these options out now before going down there. I
have a Compaq laptop, she has a new Mac Ibook. cam we get one mj that is compatable with both so we don't need to have both laptops running all the
time?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by RetiredGolf1
So it seems like the mj is pretty easy to hook up. What about the extra "cost" having the pc on 24/7.. is that worth mentioning at all?
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I mentioned above that it has to be on to receive calls. It's not for everyone. My use is for calling out...to the states and for that, it's good.
If I had incoming calls that I couldn't afford to miss, I'd probably have Vonage.
I also mentioned that it has voice mail. The computer doesn't have to be on to record these. MJ sends an email when there's a VM in your box.
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shari
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MJ can also be used with a headset and there is a little phone number pad you can dial from the computer too. It's fine for me that incoming calls go
to voice mail when my computer isnt on...i can call them back.
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