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bunnI've been really dubious about the much talked up technology which pinpoints a user's location from an IP address for many years (it has got better, to be fair). I just don't see how it could work, without all sorts of information that isn't in the public domain being released by a load of independent private companies without the user's permission in a dubiously-legal kind of way.
So, I was pleased to see my suspicions confirmed by this : http://whatismyipaddress.com/
It thinks I'm between Cambridge and Ipswich. Now I am intrigued as to why. I'm not there, my ISP isn't there, and last time I spoke to them, the routing for my account was done from near Reading. So, what is it there in the East that it's picking up? I'd love to know.
It did get my country right, which is an improvement over my Claranet days when checkers of this kind always insisted that I must be in Germany.
So, I was pleased to see my suspicions confirmed by this : http://whatismyipaddress.com/
It thinks I'm between Cambridge and Ipswich. Now I am intrigued as to why. I'm not there, my ISP isn't there, and last time I spoke to them, the routing for my account was done from near Reading. So, what is it there in the East that it's picking up? I'd love to know.
It did get my country right, which is an improvement over my Claranet days when checkers of this kind always insisted that I must be in Germany.
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Date: 2007-08-03 08:43 pm (UTC)According to RIPE your IP address is described as ' Range2 NewcastleUT' so it looks like Orange/Wanadoo are trying to tie things down geographically. But the map location isn't coming from the RIPE database, because according to RIPE my IP belongs in Lancashire, where my ISP lives...