Poll: Let these sites guess your location based on IP

[nissan720]

The first was closer when it was mapped. Both were about 50 miles off.

 

[phisrow]

IP2Location thinks that I'm in Texas. MaxMind at least correctly placed me in Chicago.

 

[dxkj]

Where is the option for both being wrong?

 

[Captante]

ip2location was off by about 50 miles & said I was in New York State ... Maxmind got me at my exact location (& isp) in Connecticut.

 

[flexy]

they're both right,

but the second one is in my host-black-list !

Consider that there might be some people with those anti-spammer/virus hostfiles etc. and they cant get to the second link !

 

[SOSTrooper]

Umm I think both are wrong? I'm in Berkeley which is East Bay but both said San Francisco.

 

[Buckrgs]

The first one was right but the answer was extremely general (it only said the US). MaxMind told me where I am and what ISP I'm using. It also gave latitude and longitude but the lat and long it gave is Seahawks Stadium which I definitely don't live at.

 

[ranting]

both correct on country,city and company

 

[madeupfacts]

zOMG!1 How do that thing know where I live?!?!!?!?!?!?

 

[ForumMaster]

well they were both in the correct country but neither was really accurate. the first put me in jerusalem and the second in Ramat Gan which is a part of tel aviv. i live near Haifa. but atleast it gave the correct country. it's because my ISP is based in Tel Aviv i think.

 

[SportSC4]

maxmind had me closer by 2 miles, but even that was off by ~16 miles. i'd still say they're both pretty good in my instance

 

[oztrailrider]

ip2location was way off (by a couple of states!). maxmind was very close, only out by a couple of suburbs.

 

[aircooled]

both were close, but one city off.

 

[Colt45]

both right

 

[Doctorweir]

First thought I'm in the UK, lol...second at least had the country right but no more info...

 

[imported_hscorpio]

They were both accurate, but can they find sexy singles or a real SEX partner in my city for me?

 

[baoytl]

1st one: off by Lat: .0212 Long: .0286
2nd one off by Lat: .0069 Long: .0020

 

[compuwiz1]

Scary accurate enough to want to move! :shocked:

 

[lyssword]

both wrong

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: calbear2000
Wanted to do a quick poll to see which IP address lookup is more accurate in your case. Both of these links look at your IP address to estimate your city, state:


http://www.ip2location.com/

versus

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip

This takes all of 10 seconds... Thanks for your help! We're trying to decide which license to buy. If either are off, can you indicate by how much approximately?

both were wrong..lol

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
well they were both in the correct country but neither was really accurate. the first put me in jerusalem and the second in Ramat Gan which is a part of tel aviv. i live near Haifa. but atleast it gave the correct country. it's because my ISP is based in Tel Aviv i think.

The first one put me in eilat (very far away from me) and the second one just said israel without a city (I live near Jerusalem)

 

[nullbox]

Depends if your using privoxy and tor

 

[L00ker]

Ok that last post was me, seriously WTF is going on with the forums today? looks like some kind of malformed cookie hack? lol hrmmm Doug777?

 

[tombo]

2nd one was more accurate, and I'm from the UK.

 

[spaceman]

both inaccurate.