Re: IP => Location on the planet

[Alan Clegg <alan () clegg com>]

On 10/30/15 3:31 PM, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
> No follow up required or expected.
>
> FYI geo-location fans.
>
> While sitting on a toilet in a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, US of A,
> I chanced to log-on to Facebook from my Kindle, and the lap-top in the
> on the desk in another room, Facebook alerted that I had logged on from
> Caracas, Venezuela.  I have not checked--we might be in the same time-zone.

That's OK.  I purchased a WAP from someone in Virginia and now I can't
get the Google App on my phone to admit that I'm still at home and not
in Broad Run.

If anyone has any idea how to "unglue" a MAC address from an incorrect
location in the guts of Google (I've done the skyhook thing
http://www.skyhookwireless.com/submit-access-point), please let me know
(this is an invitation for a followup).

AlanC
-- 
When I do still catch the odd glimpse, it's peripheral; mere fragments
of mad-doctor chrome, confining themselves to the corner of the eye.

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