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
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