Location Setting

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: []

Strange: the two of the locator sites you give that work seem to think
my IP - which I assume is from a pool allocated by my ISP - is in
Truro, which is in the West country (Cornwall I think); I'm in Kent,
and my ISP usually claims to be in Yorkshire!

The provide geolocation based on allocation and databases of usage.
Doesn't really matter where YOU are. Matters where is the ISP's
distribution of IP addresses from its pool. They aren't designed to
find you down to a house number on a particular street. They're
designed to get down to a city but a "city" may be a metropolis or
collection of townships. I live in a suburb that is 15 miles away

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Hmm, your English geography is perhaps no better than mine of your
country ... these places are a wee bit more than 15 miles apart: Truro,
Kent, and Yorkshire are in a triangle about 300 to 400 miles on a side -
most of the size of this country in fact (-:!

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Look at the top right corner of the web page.

Ah, how could I have missed that!
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