Cell phone data plan

[LSMFT]

If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use
Magic Jack phone service on my notebook?



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LSMFT

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[Lab1]

On 1/20/2011 10:07 PM, LSMFT wrote:

If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use
Magic Jack phone service on my notebook?

I don't see why not. If you can use Skype you can use Magic Jack as they
are pretty close to the same technology less Magic Jacks DTMF telephone
interface.



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-Scott

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Lab1 wrote:

On 1/20/2011 10:07 PM, LSMFT wrote:
If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use
Magic Jack phone service on my notebook?

I don't see why not. If you can use Skype you can use Magic Jack as they
are pretty close to the same technology less Magic Jacks DTMF telephone
interface.

Have you ever used a Magic Jack? The audio is clear, but there is a
lot of latency.


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

 

[Lab1]

On 1/21/2011 9:17 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use
Magic Jack phone service on my notebook?

I don't see why not. If you can use Skype you can use Magic Jack as they
are pretty close to the same technology less Magic Jacks DTMF telephone
interface.

Have you ever used a Magic Jack? The audio is clear, but there is a
lot of latency.

Yes, my dad has one. He is on high speed cable internet and I didn't
notice very much latency with his setup. This was about 2 years ago and
MJ wasn't nearly as popular as it is today. He doesn't use it much
because he always has a cell phone. I wonder if whatever MJ uses to
connect to the telco's is bogged down now?


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-Scott

 

[Meat Plow]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:07:33 -0500, LSMFT wrote:

If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use
Magic Jack phone service on my notebook?

Magic Jack requires a minimum upload speed of 128 KB/s (or kbit/s or
kbps). There is no minimum requirement for download speed.

That's what they say. However to me 128 KB/s is kilobytes per second.

Anyway

Test your upload speed at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

An IPhone at 3G was rumored to do 225 kbps upstream.




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[Michael A. Terrell]

Lab1 wrote:

On 1/21/2011 9:17 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use
Magic Jack phone service on my notebook?

I don't see why not. If you can use Skype you can use Magic Jack as they
are pretty close to the same technology less Magic Jacks DTMF telephone
interface.

Have you ever used a Magic Jack? The audio is clear, but there is a
lot of latency.

Yes, my dad has one. He is on high speed cable internet and I didn't
notice very much latency with his setup. This was about 2 years ago and
MJ wasn't nearly as popular as it is today. He doesn't use it much
because he always has a cell phone. I wonder if whatever MJ uses to
connect to the telco's is bogged down now?

I only use it for a backup becasue of the latency problems. I have
between 7 and 10 Mb/s data rate downstream and 1.5 to 2.5 upstream.
I've had it about three months. Also, I'm not sure if it can handle the
QPSK modulation.


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Lab1 wrote:

On 1/21/2011 9:17 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

If I have cell phone usb stick for wireless data connection can I use
Magic Jack phone service on my notebook?

I don't see why not. If you can use Skype you can use Magic Jack as they
are pretty close to the same technology less Magic Jacks DTMF telephone
interface.

Have you ever used a Magic Jack? The audio is clear, but there is a
lot of latency.

Yes, my dad has one. He is on high speed cable internet and I didn't
notice very much latency with his setup. This was about 2 years ago and
MJ wasn't nearly as popular as it is today. He doesn't use it much
because he always has a cell phone. I wonder if whatever MJ uses to
connect to the telco's is bogged down now?

One other problem: Magic Jack installs some software on a PC the
first time you use it. It may not work with a cell phone.


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.