Authored by: Stealth on
Tuesday, February 05 2008 @ 12:40 am PST
Apparently this only works when it wants to, so according to this detector I'm at
Germany eating Hamburg surfing the web.
When really I'm 2,500 miles away sitting on my laptop Eating a peanut butter and fluff sandwich enjoying every moment knowing my identity will never be stolen :)
Cheers, Stealth
Authored by: gtoji on
Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 03:39 pm PST
map location was about 8 miles from my house, the fact that I'm on a wireless network w/ dynamic IP address may make it less accurate. The location on the map is where I know the ISP router hub for my area is.
Question, by next year all of the twin cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) will be covered by a government funded wireless network open to anyone who wants to use that service (effectively making the twin cities one large WLAN network) the wireless modems/routers are mounted on every third telephone pole, anyways, will this make it easier to pinpoint your location using this service, or harder?
Authored by: olgorofi on
Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 10:40 am PDT
My IP 201.58.140.54 is generated in BELO HORIZONTE -MINAS GERAIS - BRAZIL. The result view is wrong (Campestre 15 Brazil). The distance difference is aproxim. 200 miles.
Authored by: kevsamo on
Monday, April 21 2008 @ 02:37 pm PDT
I did a trace route and was mildly surprised to see it gave Lat and Long in the results.
(This was before I read this poll)
So I copied and pasted into Google Earth (latest update is kewl!)
to see how accurate it was.
It was some miles off (I live at the beach).
I was a bit disconcerted with where it says I live ....
Authored by: lysander on
Tuesday, June 24 2008 @ 10:14 am PDT
Although the map location shown for me on the home page is off by about 7 miles, it probably accurately reflects the Comcast neighborhood router/head-end for my part of Tucson. Educated guess.
Authored by: LordMarik on
Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 09:30 pm PDT
Map is somewhat accurate. Location is within 2 miles, however when zoomed in I saw that it has my ip location in the middle of a pond that is about 1500 feet wide and about 30 feet deep. It'd be kinda cool to have an underwater crib but unfortunately I do not.. Shucks.
Authored by: gyro on
Monday, July 28 2008 @ 11:19 pm PDT
Wow...apparently I live in Wichita Kansas...and here for all these years I've deluded myself into thinking I lived in Oregon...nice to know anyone trying to find me with my IP is royally screwed. Just for kicks I also sent myself an email and then copied the header into trace email. It did better, said I live in Mountain View California...but hey that's closer than Kansas haha.
Authored by: bad406camaro on
Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 04:10 pm PDT
wow the map was very scarry close. i have purchased anonymizer and am very happy with the results. i tried the free trial offer and with in 3 days i purchased the product. i did have to call customer support when i had a prolbem updating but it turned out to be a issue with how windows was updating but they helped me anyway. a+++ software
Authored by: JameZS on
Monday, August 18 2008 @ 10:38 am PDT
I live near Edinburgh in Scotland and the map showed Coventry in England. I am quite worried now because sometimes, quite randomly, my laptop starts playing music even though I'm not, so I think i should check it out to see if someone has access to my laptop.
Authored by: Dreamfrog on
Sunday, August 24 2008 @ 02:43 pm PDT
I am viewing this page on a cellphone browser so it is showing my providers company office in Rhode Island instead of Vermont where I am living and using the phone. Not sure the distance from there to here. 5 hour travel time.
Authored by: massar on
Monday, November 10 2008 @ 05:33 am PST
Your estimate of our location was off by 10 kilometers.
This error may or may not have been caused by your use of an ancient metric of distance called "mile".
This is a bad practice, likely to introduce calculation errors, as demonstrated by crashing mars landers and other disasters.
In our country, as in most parts of the civilised world, people are using the metric system.
Authored by: bugmenot on
Sunday, November 16 2008 @ 11:54 am PST
One of the reasons I chose my ISP is because my IP is so dynamic, and not geographically coded; every time I renew it I get a completely different location, hundreds of miles away. Not going to disclose who my ISP are though, else they might decide to "fix" it (break it) hehe.
Authored by: mumbaihawk on
Wednesday, January 07 2009 @ 01:40 pm PST
It said i was in Springfield Mo. and I am 60 miles west and south of there on I 44 in the city of Joplin Mo. It is att dsl and they may feed the net from Springfield. I know it gets bad ever time it storms and I am thinking it is microwave or satellite do to the way it acts during the storm.
Mumbai Hawk
Authored by: MartinNo2 on
Monday, February 23 2009 @ 10:50 am PST
I found my ISP's location < 1/2 mile from where I am, then reconnected and it's now 7 miles away from me ... (cannot find the vote button on this poll)
Authored by: Addashaw on
Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 05:38 pm PST
I did not think that it would be that accurate it was about 300 yards off which is a little scary though i am very interested in internet because it scientifically is a whole separate dimension. I may only be less than 18 but i know more than most adults