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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.   
      
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