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Posted by willshak on September 27, 2009, 9:00 am
on 9/27/2009 3:32 AM (ET) mm wrote the following:
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>>> wrote:
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>>>> Magic Jack supports 911. You have to put in your address when first
>>>> setting it up and the address is recorded with the 911 system.
>>>> Your 911 address can be changed at any time and whenever you want, so if
>>>> you go anywhere, like on vacation somewhere, you take the MJ with you
>>>> and plug it into someone's computer, or your own laptop, and change your
>>>> 911 address to where you are temporarily staying. Reset the 911 address
>>>> when you return home.
>>>>
>>> Good to know, about my house, but I'd never get around to changing it
>>> when I was someplace else. I'd have to be being chased by killers,
>>> like in the movies. Then I'd do it.
>>> I realize you are making a point that it's as good as a regular telco
>>> wired phone, and better I guess than a cellphone, where you iiuc you
>>> can't do that.
>>>
>> I have a MagicJack. It has terrible reception.
>>
> Is this the same thing advertised under a differnt name on tv, that
> they say is the secret the phone company doesn't want you to know
> about.
>
Everything advertised on TV is some secret that somebody doesn't want
you to know!
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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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Posted by willshak on September 27, 2009, 8:57 am
on 9/27/2009 1:45 AM (ET) mm wrote the following:
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> wrote:
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>> Magic Jack supports 911. You have to put in your address when first
>> setting it up and the address is recorded with the 911 system.
>> Your 911 address can be changed at any time and whenever you want, so if
>> you go anywhere, like on vacation somewhere, you take the MJ with you
>> and plug it into someone's computer, or your own laptop, and change your
>> 911 address to where you are temporarily staying. Reset the 911 address
>> when you return home.
>>
> Good to know, about my house, but I'd never get around to changing it
> when I was someplace else. I'd have to be being chased by killers,
> like in the movies. Then I'd do it.
>
What about a medical emergency?
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> I realize you are making a point that it's as good as a regular telco
> wired phone, and better I guess than a cellphone, where you iiuc you
> can't do that.
>
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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @
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Posted by mm on September 27, 2009, 11:16 am
wrote:
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>on 9/27/2009 1:45 AM (ET) mm wrote the following:
>> wrote:
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>>> Magic Jack supports 911. You have to put in your address when first
>>> setting it up and the address is recorded with the 911 system.
>>> Your 911 address can be changed at any time and whenever you want, so if
>>> you go anywhere, like on vacation somewhere, you take the MJ with you
>>> and plug it into someone's computer, or your own laptop, and change your
>>> 911 address to where you are temporarily staying. Reset the 911 address
>>> when you return home.
>>>
>> Good to know, about my house, but I'd never get around to changing it
>> when I was someplace else. I'd have to be being chased by killers,
>> like in the movies. Then I'd do it.
>>
>What about a medical emergency?
I would never get around to planning for one of those. I'm wasn't
saying that's good, just that that's how I am.
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>> I realize you are making a point that it's as good as a regular telco
>> wired phone, and better I guess than a cellphone, where you iiuc you
>> can't do that.
>>
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Posted by George on September 27, 2009, 11:57 am
mm wrote:
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>> on 9/27/2009 1:45 AM (ET) mm wrote the following:
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Magic Jack supports 911. You have to put in your address when first
>>>> setting it up and the address is recorded with the 911 system.
>>>> Your 911 address can be changed at any time and whenever you want, so if
>>>> you go anywhere, like on vacation somewhere, you take the MJ with you
>>>> and plug it into someone's computer, or your own laptop, and change your
>>>> 911 address to where you are temporarily staying. Reset the 911 address
>>>> when you return home.
>>>>
>>> Good to know, about my house, but I'd never get around to changing it
>>> when I was someplace else. I'd have to be being chased by killers,
>>> like in the movies. Then I'd do it.
>>>
>> What about a medical emergency?
>
> I would never get around to planning for one of those. I'm wasn't
> saying that's good, just that that's how I am.
You may want to. A relative of mine died and is alive today because of
911. He came home before his wife, felt bad, dialed 911, dropped the
phone and died. The paramedics and police are automatically dispatched
on such calls. They got his heart started and he is still going strong.
I don't know how VoIP 911 works and how much I would depend on it. My
understanding it is some kludge and doesn't work like "normal" 911. In
"normal" 911 the phone switch includes information about your lines
location and it comes up directly on the comm centers screen. I think
the VoIP systems just make an automated call to the regular comm center
voice number.
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>>> I realize you are making a point that it's as good as a regular telco
>>> wired phone, and better I guess than a cellphone, where you iiuc you
>>> can't do that.
>>>
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Posted by mm on September 29, 2009, 5:59 pm
wrote:
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>mm wrote:
>> wrote:
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>>> on 9/27/2009 1:45 AM (ET) mm wrote the following:
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Magic Jack supports 911. You have to put in your address when first
>>>>> setting it up and the address is recorded with the 911 system.
>>>>> Your 911 address can be changed at any time and whenever you want, so if
>>>>> you go anywhere, like on vacation somewhere, you take the MJ with you
>>>>> and plug it into someone's computer, or your own laptop, and change your
>>>>> 911 address to where you are temporarily staying. Reset the 911 address
>>>>> when you return home.
>>>>>
>>>> Good to know, about my house, but I'd never get around to changing it
>>>> when I was someplace else. I'd have to be being chased by killers,
>>>> like in the movies. Then I'd do it.
>>>>
>>> What about a medical emergency?
>>
>> I would never get around to planning for one of those. I'm wasn't
>> saying that's good, just that that's how I am.
>You may want to. A relative of mine died and is alive today because of
>911. He came home before his wife, felt bad, dialed 911, dropped the
>phone and died. The paramedics and police are automatically dispatched
>on such calls. They got his heart started and he is still going strong.
That much I'm set up for. I have but rearely use a cordless phone and
don't have an internet phone. I do have a real phone, one in almost
every room. But I challenge the notion that anyone has died and is
alive today. If he's alive now, whether his heart stopped or not, he
was never dead.
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>I don't know how VoIP 911 works and how much I would depend on it. My
>understanding it is some kludge and doesn't work like "normal" 911. In
>"normal" 911 the phone switch includes information about your lines
>location and it comes up directly on the comm centers screen. I think
>the VoIP systems just make an automated call to the regular comm center
>voice number.
Probably.
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>>>> I realize you are making a point that it's as good as a regular telco
>>>> wired phone, and better I guess than a cellphone, where you iiuc you
>>>> can't do that.
>>>>
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>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Magic Jack supports 911. You have to put in your address when first
>>>> setting it up and the address is recorded with the 911 system.
>>>> Your 911 address can be changed at any time and whenever you want, so if
>>>> you go anywhere, like on vacation somewhere, you take the MJ with you
>>>> and plug it into someone's computer, or your own laptop, and change your
>>>> 911 address to where you are temporarily staying. Reset the 911 address
>>>> when you return home.
>>>>
>>> Good to know, about my house, but I'd never get around to changing it
>>> when I was someplace else. I'd have to be being chased by killers,
>>> like in the movies. Then I'd do it.
>>> I realize you are making a point that it's as good as a regular telco
>>> wired phone, and better I guess than a cellphone, where you iiuc you
>>> can't do that.
>>>
>> I have a MagicJack. It has terrible reception.
>>
> Is this the same thing advertised under a differnt name on tv, that
> they say is the secret the phone company doesn't want you to know
> about.
>