Re: Anyone using Magic Jack with Windows Server 2003?

[Glenn Hopwood <ghopwood.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

My boss has one and it's 'behind the router' and needs a power outlet. 
He also hooked his up in such a way that all the phone outlets still work.

Glenn

On 9/30/2010 1:52 PM, GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks for the info on ooma - looks a lot better than MJ. From the
> research I did so far MJ doesn't really fit the bill (ie.  you get what
> you pay for).
>
> ooma seems expensive up front but would easily recover the cost of an at&t
> land line in one year, or two years from my local cable landline offering.
>
>
> The issue I have is that before we dumped our landline, we got maybe two
> calls/month (election season excluded), and it was really hard to justify
> spending any bucks on a landline - but this past week I managed to disable
> the ringer on my cell phone and missed an important phone call - and if I
> still had a landline I probably wouldn't have missed that call. As a
> result we are revisiting the idea of reviving the landline, but really
> don't want to use a telco for maybe one/two calls per year - especially
> when we have unlimited local and long distance with our cell provider.
>
> ooma sounds like a good suggestion for a combined Christmas present from
> the kids!
>
> But I couldn't find (on the ooma website) anything that indicated whether
> the device needs to run between my cable modem and router or if it should
> be behind the router (ie can it run from a port off the router)? And it
> didn't indicate that a power supply was needed - should I assume there is
> a wall wart somewhere in the mix?
>
> Regards, Jerry
>
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