Magic Jack Plus

[AwayWeGo]

Don't Try To Call Me. I'll Try To Call You.

Is there anything particular that I need to know?? Mine is arriving this afternoon, and hopefully my hubby will wait til I get home from work before attempting to install it

We are going to keep our old number, and discontinue our personal landline.

Paying ahead for several years of service is 1 thing. Paying ahead for a custom Magic Jack telephone number is something else again.

Shux, I figured my easy-to-remember Magic Jack phone number was part of the 5-year deal.

I figured wrong.

We started getting a recording letting us know our phone number would expire soon (i.e., next month) & we should go on line to renew it.

Same message showed up on the Magic Jack screen of our electric computer.

I don't often think about Magic Jack, but when I do I think I've got 5 years or so of paid-ahead service. Who knew that doesn't include the phone number I picked ?

So, I logged on, hashed it over with a real-time chat person at Magic Jack Command Central, got myself clear on the concept, & renewed my custom phone number for $3 + 14¢ tax.

I spoze I'll get another reminder about this time next year.

So it goes.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[persia]

Nettalk Duo Wifi doesn't require an ethernet connection, but we paid ahead on MagicJack for 5 years and have three years left yet. We have a custom number as well xxx-xx1-2345. It's so good people think it's a fake number...

 

[MichaelColey]

We think the custom numbers are worth the extra $10/year. For our retail business, we were able to get a local number ending in SHOP (7467).

There's also a $10/year charge if you port a number.

We prepaid for 5 years (about $100) on each of ours, too. Incredible deal, compared to $25/month from the phone company.

The one thing I wish we could do with it was transfer a call to another MJ assigned to the same number. We have our main business line that rings at the house (line 2), the retail location (line 2), on our mobile MJP and on my iPhone. If my wife is working at the shop and I'm working at home, invariably the call is for whoever didn't pick up the line.

 

[MichaelColey]

For mine, I hooked them up two different ways and both ways worked fine.

For one, I just disconnected the inside wiring at the DEMARC (the box outside the house where the phone company connects their wiring to yours) and plugged the MJP into one of the jacks in the house. Every jack in the house worked.

For one of the others, I had an inside punch down block and I disconnected the phone company wiring, cut and stripped one end of a phone cord, and hooked the MJP up there. Every jack at that location worked once I did that, too.

The first way is a little easier and the second way is a bit more "standard", but both work fine. The only tricky part is that you have to have an Ethernet connection, a power plug and a phone jack (or run cables to them) where you put the MJP.