On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:17:30 +0100, Brian Gregory wrote:

On 26/09/2018 19:47, VanguardLH wrote:
If you enabled geolocation services within your web browser and if a
site uses that geolocation from your web browser then a site can better
(more narrowly) determine your location. However, if your host cannot
get at the other geo sources, the site only knows your IP address. "All
3 web browsers" doesn't actually say which ones you tried, nor does it
state if geolocation is enabled or disabled in them.

We're in the Windows 7 group here. What you're describe normally only
applies only to mobile devices.


If I allow geolocation within my Windows computer web browser, it gets
my location down to the street and block I am on.

I am using WiFi. The geolocation gets the list of neighbouring home
WiFi points and sends the list to a geolocation service. The
geolocation service checks that list against its massive database of
WiFi points and their locations, to find the street and block I am on.


https://www.maketecheasier.com/google-know-where-wifi-router/

https://wigle.net/

https://blog.ouseful.info/2016/01/27/looking-up-the-physical-location-of-your-wifi-router/


FYI: this command line will list all the neighbouring home WiFi points,
if your computer's WiFi adapter is on:

netsh wlan show networks


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Kind regards
Ralph