I’m in the mood to gamble on it.
Is it as good as the ads say? Please tell all.
Do I try it and then fire AT&T or must I fire first?
I was just told you must keep your computer on 24/7
to use it properly.
Seems like a huge power waste.
Because we already have a home theater PC in the bedroom that doubles as a file server, leaving a computer on 24/7 wasn’t a big deal to me.
The MagicJack works. It does. With some tweaking, the sound quality is comparable to regular analog phone service.
I haven’t had any problems with dropouts, but I have noticed a time delay sometimes (up to half a second). It can get annoying, but isn’t that bad.
For the price, it is an amazing deal. We got rid of our landline long ago and I wanted to try out the MagicJack for the hell of it.
Thanks, hekk for your reply.
We’re old, so we kinda need 24/7 phones, and I have a thing about wasting so much energy by keeping the computer on all day.
A thought—probably dangerous. 
With my PC on standby, would incoming calls activate the mputer/MagicJack?
No, at least not IME. With the computer on standby, there is no software running to enable the MagicJack.
ETA:
Also, I think that placing the computer in standby disables the USB port power. I’m not certain about this though.
One thing you need to consider - if you have DSL, you can’t kill your landline service or you’ll kill your DSL as well. (Some phone companies do allow what’s called “naked” DSL on a line without voice service, but that’s pretty uncommon and often limited to business accounts.
If you do have DSL, this may still be a valid thing to get if you make a lot of long-distance calls.
We had it for about a week. I doesn’t play well with a lot of other programs (running on XP), and wanted to be the only one running at all. There’s a few reviews out there that say the same thing, so apparently it’s not that uncommon for it to interfere with other programs. There aren’t many local phone prefixes either.
Here’s a link to a review site, by the way.
I have had mine for about a year with no problems. I have my cell phone I leave on at night so I don’t need to run my computer 24/7. One feature I like is you can copy and paste phone numbers right off the internet to make calls.