On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:32:31 -0000 (UTC) Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2020-04-11, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:49:50AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would > >> say, always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is pretty precise > >> for IP based location. > > > > Just for kicks, I entered my external IP address into > > https://geoip.com/ and it misses me by roughly 3km. > > I wanted to try this myself but got a > > 403 Permission Denied > You do not have permission for this request > >
It's a bit flaky. Here is whatismyip.com: City: Sheffield State: England Sheffield is a city well into the North of England. Here's geoip.com: United Kingdom ENG England Washington 50.9049 -0.40649 This isn't the original Washington, which is in East Anglia, this is a tiny village near the south coast of England. And I live in the easternmost London Borough. So much for accuracy. My ISP's national HQ is in Sheffield, but where the hell Washington comes from, I don't know. -- Joe
