Review: MagicJack Phone Service
November 28, 2009 
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If you have been looking for a new service for your landline phone, then have you looked into MagicJack? We have tested this piece of software and below is our review of the service.
The magic jack is a usb device that plugs into your computer and uses the internet connection attached to your computer. You then plug in your telephone cable into the magicjack piece and you are on your way. Here are a few things that you get from MagicJack, free local and long distance, free phone number, free call waiting, free voicemail, and free caller id. These are the same features that you usually get from other phone companies and VOIP phone companies.
When we tested the service, we did not have a problem with voice quality or any sound issues. We will say that if you do not have a good internet connection, then you could have a problem with quality. You cannot use this with a dial-up connection or a connection that is very low quality. The best is to have high speed internet from your local ISP, like 7-10mb per second. This should be good enough for the service to work great. Your voicemails are stored on servers that magicjack own, so you might have to worry about security on their part and hopefully they back-up their servers so you don’ t lose your voicemails. If you do a lot of downloading or uploading via your computer, then you might experience some issues with sound quality. We did experience some quality issues when we were streaming videos via our internet connection and talking with someone. This was just a test that we conducted.
While we didn’t have any issues with the service and everything worked great for us, please bear in mind that there can be many things that might affect your service with them. If you have a slow computer or one that has viruses, then this service will be compromised. We have heard some people have problems with uninstalling the magicjack software, but we didn’t have any of those issues. If your internet goes down, which can happen often depending on your ISP, then your magicjack service will not work and you will not be able to make any calls or receive them. These are things that you have to think about before you purchase magicjack.
All in all, we think magicjack is a good service and a nice alternative to other phone services like Vonage or traditional services like AT&T. Please make sure you computer can handle magicjack and your internet service will be able to run smoothly. You can get a free trial via magicjack.com or you can pick up the service a retailers like walmart and best buy.
UPDATE: Here is Another Good Review of MagicJack
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