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rwpikul
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Apr-22-17, 03:29 PM (EDT) |
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12. "RE: Help me with my research"
In response to message #11
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>>It uses https://freegeoip.net/ but I have no reason to think that >>that's any more accurate on average than any of the other services >>that do the same thing. Maybe someone at your ISP is buddies with them >>and has given them more accurate information. *shrug* > >It's been a looong time since I worked in that field, and I might be >talking out of my ass now, but it seems possible to me that sites like >Home Depot are only looking at where the traffic they're receiving got >onto the backbone. That would make sense in terms of their assuming >that everyone using a given ISP is where that ISP's NOC is. I do know that a lot of those systems are just able to narrow it down to a geographic region, (e.g. we know you are in Maine), and then return a marker saying "here is the centre of the area it is in." There are people who have issues with this method. Generally because that geographic centre happens to land on their home. -- Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad) |
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