Linux Magic Jack?

Sun Jul 12 22:22:17 MST 2009

google vioice does a click to call deal so you enter the number it will call
you then it.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:12 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you do free calling with google voice? It seems  it is just a
> forwarding service.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:39 PM, James Finstrom <
> jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
>
>> In a time where most homes have no land line ane 5 cell phones voip
>> can be verry useful. I personaly haven't had a real phone line in
>> years. I wouldn't use the magic jack personally but I have about $2000
>> worth of various voip gear in my house. I also do verry little
>> outbound calling. I have a 2 free did's that terminate in to my
>> system. I have hacks and scripts that allow me to do mosof my outbound
>> calling free as well. I just got a google voice account which allows
>> me to do free calling as well this is all cheaper than the magic jack
>> service. I think its a neat option for the non technical. My father in
>> law is as bad as it gets with computers and I didn't get asked at all
>> to help him install it. If you are even mildly more technical there is
>> no reason to pay for anything phone related.
>>
>> On 7/12/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, mike Enriquez<mylinux at cox.net> wrote:
>> >> I  saw  a demo of Magic Jack which a USB thumb drive like device that
>> >> lets you plug in a telephone jack and make all your phone calls via the
>> >> internet.It claims to work only on windows.
>> >> They claim that the annual fee is $20.00. Does anyone on the list know
>> >> if this is available on Linux or something else exist that is similar.
>> >> Boy, I like the price of $20.00 per year to make all my phone calls.
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Mike Enriquez
>> >>
>> >>
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>> > Hello Mike!
>> >
>> > The utilization issues for all VOIP, IAX systems replacing land line
>> > phones include networking complexity, security and E-911 issues,
>> > wherein emergency services can immediately verify your address.  I
>> > wrote the PHP/SQL extension to the Affinity Voip Telecom SER switch
>> > for their E-911 registration process so I have a good idea that most
>> > people are not bothering to register their VOIP service; E911 is a
>> > federal VOIP requirement at the provider level, however must be
>> > maintained by the user at the time of service registration.
>> >
>> > The network issues with all VOIP, IAX2 include NAT traversal which can
>> > add more than a little bit of instability during setup and when the
>> > network chances or is reset.
>> >
>> > I am curious as to why anyone would even sanely consider buying a USB
>> > "device", when you can easily use softphones like Ekiga (with a PSTN
>> > VOIP trunk from axvoice.com $9.99 a month for instance) or Skype
>> > ($30.00 unlimited a year)?
>> > Skype allows you to skype2twitter; your incoming calls can be
>> > forwarded and recorded, various other cool voice analysis plugins are
>> > available, etc.
>> >
>> > https://extras.skype.com/
>> >
>> http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/skype/5_most_useful_plugins_for_skype.html
>> >
>> > There's an article/review that mirrors my sentiment exactly saying,
>> > quote:  "there's a whiff of sleaze about it all".
>> >
>> http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/03/12/magicjack_far_from_enchanting/
>> >
>> > Having built (and used home based and professional solutions) Trixbox,
>> > SER, and Asterisk for AffinityVoip, GST Telecommunications,
>> > Skymall.com and maintained intelligent dialers, programmed and
>> > administered a Stromberg Carlson DCO, I am fairly well versed in VOIP
>> > and I just have to ask "Why MagicJack"?  and "Where's the Magic"?
>> >
>> > Why have essentially a client running on a USB key?  ...scratch
>> > head...  When you can have it on your computer?
>> > There are a great many hardware based solutions also around $30.00
>> > (which is what the USB client will cost you after you pay for your
>> > $30.00 a year throughput fees):
>> >
>> > Grandstream ATA's:
>> > http://www.grandstream.com/products/ht_series/ht503/ht503.html
>> > http://www.grandstream.com/products/ht_series/ht486/ht486.html
>> > (axvoice.com ships one of these with signup)
>> >
>> >
>> > Of course, in a disaster situation, where power goes out, your client
>> > will not work, unless you have your phone tethered to your battery
>> > laptop running your client.   And it's certainly a great deal easier
>> > to just have a client, since USB devices are not many on most
>> > notebooks and it's not exactly the best time to be troubleshooting
>> > UDP/NAT Stun traversal settings, during a disaster?
>> >
>> > (In the old days with our digital PSTN POTS lines with 20 feet
>> > "wireless answering machine phones", we had to get a plain butt-set to
>> > make calls during power failure, but at least they still worked
>> > usually.)   Hardware based VOIP phones, don't!
>> >
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