Customer Reviews

RTX DUALjack RTX3241S - white

5 star:		(44)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Yes!!! It works!!!

The house I grew up in and lived in while going through college has only one phone jack in the entire house. This caused a lot of problems for me as a teenager when I wanted to call girls without my sisters listening in. I was really shy, it was hard enough to ask someone out without an audience, let alone with my six sisters listening and making comments about what I was saying while I did it. The lack of more phone jacks caused other less severe problems in college when I needed to get the internet at home (before high speed and wireless).

So, in the past I've tried these "turn an outlet into a phone jack" devices to try and get a phone jack in a more convienent place, and I have to say that in the past I've always been dissapointed with the results. The past devices (and most of the ones still on the market) use the power lines in your house to pass signals from your portable jack to a base station located near your real phone jack. The result is something that just barely works well enough for a static filled, difficult to understand, telephone conversation, and is completely unusable as far as a dial-up internet connection is concerned. Not only that, but as soon as someone turned on a vaccum, a fan, the dryer, or any big device anywhere in the house, it stopped working. (Not good when you're trying to ask someone out, and the phone line goes dead when your mom turns on the mix-master.)

I am happy to say that the "DualJack" is different. Now I'm finishing up grad school, far from home, and wanted to get my Dad a used imac for christmas so he could use the internet and send me emails. He's retired, and he can't afford a high speed cable modem to have a wireless router, and DSL isn't in his area. Dial-up is the only option, but, there's the same problem as when I lived there, only one phone jack, and no place near it to put a computer. I looked at everything around now days, and most of what's out there are still the power-line transmitters that don't work. THE ONLY THING THAT WILL WORK IS RADIO WAVES to transmit the singal from where you want the computer to be and where the phone jack is located. Some options out there required you to have another computer close to the jack with a wireless router to dial in and share the connection (the whole point is that there isn't room/don't want a computer by the jack). Others required you to pre-program a dialing device, which, based on reviews, all sounded dissappointing, difficult to set-up, and only worked well with a few ISPs. There is a device called the NEBO that's close to what you want, uses radio waves, but uses a low carrier frequency which will reduce your connection speed, and less likely to go through walls.

But the DualJack finally gets it right. It uses a 2.4Ghz radio frequency to transmit from the portable phone jack to the base unit, which is the same carrier frequency as used with wireless cards. It looks and sets up the same as the old "power line transmission" systems, but there's a big difference in the quality of the signal, and it's completely independant of any vaccumm cleaners, dryers, fans, mixers, or anything else you might be using in your house. The sound quality when using it for a phone I've found to be next to perfect, and when you're using it with a computer modem I found little or no reduction in your connection speed. My Dad's imac is set up with this thing down the hall from the phone jack, and it's getting an excellent dial-up connection. It works. Plain and simple.

There are only two complaints or words of caution that you should keep in mind. If I could I'd give this 4.5 instead of 5 stars. The first is that you should use a phone cord with 4 lines on the connector instead of two in the connection to the computer and between the jack and the base station. It doesn't matter if you're just going to use it as a phone, but I found it didn't work quite as well for a modem if you used a cord with only two lines in it. (I'm not sure what the techincal term is, but I'm talking about the number of little wires you see if you look at the end of the cord that goes into the jack). I think the cable that comes with the dualJack only had two lines, which is why I'm complaining. My second complaint is the price. $80 on sale? $100 regularly? This is basically the same technology as a 2.4GHz cordless phone, right, which you can get for a lot less than $80. Maybe there is something more to it I'm not seeing, some technical difficulty that had to be overcome, but I don't see why they need to charge that much. I don't see why it shouldn't be $50. However, if you keep in mind that it costs around $40 to $50 to buy something that DOESN'T WORK, spending $80 to buy the DualJack, which DOES WORK next to perfectly, isn't so bad, I guess.

I purchased this product for a DirecTv HD receiver so i could order movies using the remote/receiver. Let me just say it works beautifully. I tried those wireless jacks that use the electrical wiring of your house and they are garbage. I should also note that you must notify your satellite(at least for DirecTv) provider that you want to turn on this feature(ordering through the remote/receiver).

Anyway the point is this thing takes 30 seconds to setup and works like a champion. Also, buy the phone cables used for modems if you want to do anything but use the wireless jacks as a telephone. It comes with the cheap ones by the way. Hope this helps.

I needed a phone outlet to hook up a Dish TV DVR box. I tried the one traditional one that uses the outlet wires as the phone line. It took a little work but I got the two units to connect and get a green light on both. However whenever I tried to make a call over the connection either with a phone or the box, the connection got cut. This happened repeatedly. I tried different outlets without anything else on them and still had a problem.

I bought the DualJack and hooked it up, it worked immediately with no need to reset or move anything. The diagnostic connection came through as OK immediately. This is a great product that cost the same as the other hook-up without any of the hassle, plus it simply works! What more can you ask for?

This product worked right out of the box and has been reliable for sending and receiving faxes for a few weeks now. I needed a phone line where there wasn't one and didn't want to run the cable. Don't waste your time on the units that communicate via your house's electrical wiring, especially if you need data/fax capability. Go with this one right at the start and save yourself a lot of headaches.

Unlike another one I bought, this one works with caller ID, which is just what I needed.

After doing some research for a product like this, I was convinced it was worth it to spend the extra money to get the DualJack. Using radio waves seemed like the safer bet for this technology compared to the others. Luckily, I found this on the worlds biggest auction site for only $40. Setup took all of 1 minute and the product worked the first time out of the box. Even though it will take 9 months to break even, I found owning this gives me more satisfaction than paying the cable company $5/month in ransom money.

I purchased this item to provide a convenient phone jack for Dish Network.

Who knew 20 years ago you'd need a phone jack right next to your cable outlet. Anyway, it fills that need. The Dish installer wanted $90 for the same item. I decided on this version instead of the others offered on Amazon because of the more favorable rating.

After disappointing results with two similar products, and tried this one based on its positive reviews. I was a pleasantly surprised at how well it worked -- a strong, clear signal, reliable caller-ID, no intereference with the existing wireless phones or network, and nothing to configure.

(Used to bring a second phone line from the cellar to the 2nd floor of a ~1850 house.)

This product is absolutley amazing. I was skeptical at first about buying this product because it sounded too good to be true. Well, it wasn't. This things works perfectly in less than 2 minutes. The only reason it took 2 minutes was because I had to walk upsatirs to plug in the second unit, test it, and was balck downstairs to my house phone back in place.

I got this so I would have a phone line hooked up to my Dish HD DVR box and this product does the job. I can order movies through the dish and have never experienced any speed problems using it with my box. I have never tried to use it as a modem though, so I am not really sure about that. If you are thinking about buying this product, I would buy it after reading this review.

Excellent, I wish I had purchased this one first. This is my second wireless phone jack and it works great. I've been having problems with the first one I bought. I highly recommend this one, leave GE alone.