I've been seeing the advertisement about this so-called Magic Jack, where it says it can

[demosincebirth]

replace your regular land line for 19 bucks a year. Sounds too good to be true. Anyone here have any experience with it? Thinking of trying it out. You can return it within thirty days. Any pros and cons?

[hobbit709]

1. Takes over your computer

Here's some reviews

http://www.voipreview.org/review/magicjack

[2Design]

2. good and bad but inexpensive

It has echo like cell phone to cell phone - sometimes drops but mostly ok for the price
I do not have a landline and don't use a cell but for minute to minute paid

Sometimes I have to speak up or repeat and same on other end

I have had it about five years

Can not see going back to telephone company and $25 a month for nothing

Could see maybe a cell plan but that is $40 a month

For now this works for me

I am not on the phone all the time or even a lot - I just tell people up front and they seem to be able to deal with it

Voice response units don't do well

I use google voice to route my calls through it and have answer service although there is one available with it

[leftyohiolib]

3. you need dsl service to run it - so youre goona need some companie's landline even if it's just

a dry loop (no dial tone) plus if you find you cant make calls who are gonna call to fix it ?- trbl could be in the mj, the computer or the dsl service provider.

[CK_John]

4. It is my understanding it does not support "life alert" type systems.

[leftyohiolib]

5. they had trbl with 911 as well

[pkdu]

6. We dropped landline years ago, both of us have cellphones...we added MJ to a dedicated notebook

we had spare , and use it without problems , long distance , international Incoming ,etc.