Recently we replaced our existing home phone service that was provided by Time Warner Cable with magicJack. We have been using it for a few months now so I have enough experience to report how it works.
Pros:
- Cheap
- Works with my desktop pc and plugs into our home jack just like time warner cable did to provide phone service to all phones in our house
- Mostly good sound. Sometimes things break up but I would say it is about 75% as good as TWC but much much cheaper
- Fax machine works OK with it
Cons:
- Sometimes you have to pick up the phone 2x to get it to give you a ring tone
- PC has to be always running (not a con for me since I always leave my PC on anyway)
- Have to restart it every few weeks which is fine since I usually reboot my PC that often
- Sometimes when people call, they can hear us but we cannot hear them. Calling them back always works fine
- 1hr time limit on calls. magicJack disconnects you after you make a call that goes over 1hr. You can dial right back but it is still annoying
- Tried some add on software to keep it from popping up but it stopped working after a few weeks
- Tried magicRingForever but sometimes it would fool my answering machine so I stopped using it
Monty Kamath 