Re: Anyone here using Magic Jack?

["sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I Installed the Magic Jack over the weekend.  It seems to work well enough, 
so I am cutting off my Vonage service tomorrow.

As I see it, the biggest disadvantage of Magic Jack versus Vonage is that it 
has to be attached to a PC - but that's ok, I wanted to put a PC in the 
living room for playing multimedia stuff through the TV anyway.  I found a 
used Dell Optiplex GX 270 (3.0 GHz Tower) at Discount Electronics (in 
Austin) with a licensed copy of XP Pro for 179.00 that will work just fine 
for this purpose.

It won't even need a monitor for now, since I'll be able to use remote 
desktop to control it from the laptops in the house.

Even counting the additional power usage, I'm still saving around $100.00 
over the first year of use and approximately $300.00/yr after that, compared 
to the cost of Vonage.

- sjl