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Magic Jack
Hi J&E Aruba or Bust. I undertook a technical evaluation of MagicJack about 6 months ago. As I own a home on the island I decided to take it down and test it there during the evaluation. Interestingly it performed better in Aruba than at several North American locations. The unit was connected via an HP Laptop using Setars DSL service. The clarity was good for both inbound and outbound calls, and no dropped calls were experienced. The only negative is having to have it plugged into a system that has to be powered on all the time, but that is no big issue. For the price, MagicJack offers value when calling from Aruba to NA. At our office we also have other VOIP systems installed. These offer portability to different countries where you can receive and send calls as "local" calls, but these systems tend to be priceier than the MagicJack. For approx an annual $40 cost I think it is good value. A word of warning though. If you are going to take one of these units with you, be sure to install and thoroughly test it before you leave. In our testing process we uncovered several issues. These were primarily incompatabilities related toRoxio and some other multimedia packages that prevented the unit from either working at all or crashing. These issues were confirmed in subsequent discussions with their tech support
Aquaman
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