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How does Magic Jack Work?

How does Magic Jack Plus work?

  • It's about $30 more than the regular Magic Jack. I know the regular Magic Jack works with your computer. Do you just plug in the Magic Jack Plus into your phone jack without like a telephone company's service? Do I just need the phone jack and the Magic Jack Plus? Help! and Thank You!

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    Magic Jack Plus lets you use the unit with or without a computer. Without a computer you plug the magic jack usb into a power plug adapter and plug in a ethernet cable from either a router or directly from a modem. If you want to use a computer you just plug the usb into the computer and do not have to use the direct ethernet connection. Edit: Should add the regular Magic Jack you MUST use a computer, there is no computer-less option nor a plug for the ethernet.

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Chase Hammer has got it right, Claudine, but let me add just a bit more. Both Magic Jack and Magic Jack Plus work using a high speed internet connection - not by plugging them into a phone jack. We don't have a phone line to our house, instead we've got a DSL line that provides us with high-speed internet service and allows us to talk on the phone over the internet. It's called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. You can test your internet connection by going to http://myspeed.visualware.com and running an online test which is specifically designed for VoIP. Indicate your location on the first screen of the test, then pick a nearby test facility in screen 2. Don't start the test shown in screen 3 - instead click on the VoIP link shown on the right side of that screen. It tests for jitter and packet loss as well as the speed of your connection. Good luck with it.

Hydroace

The MJ Plus allows you to plug the unit into your router so you do not have to leave your computer on all the time to receive or make calls like on the regular Magic Jack.... (Service is flaky, support kind of non-existant.)

Rich

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