Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    alt.internet.wireless    |    Fun with wireless Internet access    |    55,960 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 55,340 of 55,960    |
|    Andy Burns to Carlos E. R.    |
|    Re: How did Malibu Media find the exact     |
|    25 Oct 23 20:06:31    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10       From: usenet@andyburns.uk              Carlos E. R. wrote:              > For me, it says somewhere in Madrid, where I guess the offices of my       > current ISP are registered, which happens to be 4 Km of my actual location.       >       > But google maps locates me much more accurately, and I am not logged in.              I have a /29 subnet, normally everything goes out with a single source       IP addr, so I set up a specific NAT rule for this laptop to use a       different IP, started a private browsing window, obviously not logged       into google.              checked with whatsmyip.org that the NAT rule was taking effect, and       google maps *still* knows which village I live in ...              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca