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Re: Geo location to IP mapping

  • From: Roland Perry
  • Date: Tue May 16 07:14:16 2006

In article <[email protected]anz.com>
, [email protected] writes


I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's





quite a long way out in a small country like England.



I live in London and use BT Broadband. But geolocation
shows me being in Ipswich up in East Anglia, a long
way from London. I assume this is because the geolocation
only knows that I use an IP address from a DHCP pool
managed in Ipswich.



Martlesham, probably, which has an "Ipswich" postcode.




The end result is that most of England's population lives in Ipswich.




Only BT *Retail* ADSL customers, I'm a wholesale customer via a
different ISP, and a different misleading "location".

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Roland Perry