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Old September 27th 18, 08:34 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ralph Fox
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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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Old September 27th 18, 08:50 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
PeterC
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On 26 Sep 2018 19:12:48 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

PeterC wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:07:25 +1200, Ralph Fox wrote:

[...]
2. Now visit several of the IP address locator sites below, and
enter that IP address into the search box to find which
country the site believes your IP address belongs to.

2.1 https://www.ip2location.com/free.asp
2.2 https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup
2.3 https://www.ipligence.com/geolocation
2.4 http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/
2.5 https://www.maxmind.com/en/home
2.6 http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/

Five of these six sites correctly identified that I am in
New Zealand. But one site thought I was in South Korea.


Four are in the correct county, one of them being only about 10 - 15 miles
from the centre of England; two are Warrington in the NW of England and one
is in The Hague!


The Hague!? You stole MY IP!

BTW, is the wrong one (The Hague) given by this one:

2.3 https://www.ipligence.com/geolocation


That one places me in Rome, which is not too bad! :-)


Yes, that's the one.
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Old September 27th 18, 08:50 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
PeterC
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:05:19 +0100, Brian Gregory wrote:

On 26/09/2018 17:48, PeterC wrote:
host-**-**-**-**.as13285.net


A Talktalk IP I think.


Correct.
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Old September 27th 18, 10:36 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , PeterC
writes:
On 26 Sep 2018 19:12:48 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

PeterC wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:07:25 +1200, Ralph Fox wrote:

[...]
2. Now visit several of the IP address locator sites below, and
enter that IP address into the search box to find which
country the site believes your IP address belongs to.

2.1 https://www.ip2location.com/free.asp
2.2 https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup
2.3 https://www.ipligence.com/geolocation
2.4 http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/
2.5 https://www.maxmind.com/en/home
2.6 http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/

Five of these six sites correctly identified that I am in
New Zealand. But one site thought I was in South Korea.

Four are in the correct county, one of them being only about 10 - 15 miles
from the centre of England; two are Warrington in the NW of England and one
is in The Hague!


The Hague!? You stole MY IP!

BTW, is the wrong one (The Hague) given by this one:

2.3 https://www.ipligence.com/geolocation


That one places me in Rome, which is not too bad! :-)


Yes, that's the one.

I get four in UK (where my ISP - PlusNet - presumably is; some of the
sites identified that) - three at Horsham, one somewhere else; 2.3 says
Durban, South Africa; and the last one repeatedly crashes my Firefox 27!
(It just sits there showing about 2/3 loaded; attempts to close that tab
don't do anything. I have to Task Manage it.) In Chrome, it shows
another UK location.
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