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|    Gene Buckle to Bill Burton    |
|    Magicjack and Modem test results    |
|    29 Jan 13 07:39:28    |
       Re: Magicjack and Modem test results        By: Bill Burton to Gene Buckle on Mon Jan 28 2013 11:22 am               > I have not tried that because my thoughts are unless you are running a dual         > quad core processor on an OS that suooprts using all the cores and lots of        > memory is that you would slow the PC down so much that it would be very slow        > connect rates. In other words the magic jack would be using omputer resource        > to get the incoming call then the modem would use more of the computer        > resources to process the data then the software reciving the data would also        > using resources where as using a network capable magic jack you are using le        > of the computers resources.       I'd be astonished to see if a 5 year old machine even *noticed* the load a MJ       could put on it. The task it performs just isn't that compute intensive.              g.              --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32        * Origin: The Retro Archive (1:138/142)    |
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