I think you probably can as I saw, on activating mine prefixes that would suggest Canada... And elsewhere. Brad Trainham
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Bender Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:34 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Magic Jack... Yes!!! The Magic Jack sounds interesting, but I have not found anything on the site that would indicate that I could have a Canadian number. It only appears that you can only receive a U.S. number. Is this the case? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradford Trainham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:53 PM Subject: Magic Jack... Yes!!! > So I ordered it from... > http://www.magicjack.com > I found my jfw.ini file and added the line to "lock" Jaws into using the > built-in soundcard on my motherboard. > I plugged the lowly piece of hardware into my USB port... And waited with > bated breath. > XP was a little confused at first, and asked me if I wanted to use this > device to copy pictures from a camera to my hard drive... > But meanwhile, the onboard software installed itself, downloaded updates > and > took me to the registration screen. > I established my location, verified my settings... And soon, I was greeted > with the "soft phone"'s screen showing me my fine new phone number. > So I plugged in a telephone to the other end of the Magic Jack. > I got a dial tone, but at first, I couldn't get the phone's buttons to > operate... That is, when I pushed the buttons, there was no accompanying > tone pulse, so there was no dialing from the telephone. > I could dial out from the soft phone, and I'd had trouble with that phone > previously... During those ancient times in a former century when we used > to > have 56-k modems in our computers and splitters for our telephones... > So I switched out that phone for a cordless phone... And after positioning > the base unit for the phone far away enough from the router such that that > strange "helicopter" sound wasn't to be heard during my test > conversations, > I arrived at having a fully functional telephone connection contingent > only > on my computer's availability. > As I personally hate cell phones for anything but necessary calls, I'll > enjoy talking to my relatives over a stable connection at a very > reasonable > price. > Thanks to who ever was the first person to post the news about Magic Jack > to > this list! > Brad Trainham > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 3041 (20080419) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
