Re: Geo location to IP mapping

[Roland Perry]

In article 
<OF29005D37.D3CCF6C6-ON80257170.00326AD9-80257170.0033DB6B@btradianz.com>
, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com writes
> > I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's
> > quite a long way out in a small country like England.
> I live in London and use BT Broadband. But geolocation
> shows me being in Ipswich up in East Anglia, a long
> way from London. I assume this is because the geolocation
> only knows that I use an IP address from a DHCP pool
> managed in Ipswich.
Martlesham, probably, which has an "Ipswich" postcode.

> The end result is that most of England's population lives in Ipswich.
Only BT *Retail* ADSL customers, I'm a wholesale customer via a 
different ISP, and a different misleading "location".
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Roland Perry