Laptop Incorrect Wi-Fi Location

[RobFDB]

My company provide networking services for a customer that moves location a lot. They have their own wireless AP's that consistently show old locations when they connect to them (via phones and laptops).

The public IP addresses they use are always located in the UK but the AP's move about every couple of weeks. For example the AP's are currently in location X but one user is showing their location as Y and another is showing as Z and both are connected to the same AP.

From what I've been able to find out the problem is related to the AP's MAC/SSID being linked to a specific GPS location in a database somewhere. When a device that doesn't have GPS capabilities connects to the AP it can only pick up it's location from the Wi-Fi database.

Does anyone have any experience with this type of problem or more concrete info?

 

[azazel1024]

http://gps.about.com/od/glossary/g/wifi_position.htm

There you go. In effect it depends on who's database you look at, but its involves collecting GPS coordinates of devices connected through the router, like cell phones an tablets that have GPS. They (Google, Apple, etc) then associate the GPS coordinates of the wifi router (based on MAC I think) from that information and then anyone attaching to that wifi router will then be provided a location.