Poll: Let these sites guess your location based on IP

[yosuke188]

Both got the wrong city, but the right state. Close enough I guess.

 

[Eos]

Both got my location exactly correct.

 

[kendo26]

Both got it right. The second one provided more Info

 

[AnMig]

Way off, I am glad my proxy service is working. I am in Minnesota

Live Demo Using IP2Location? - October 2006


Your IP Address is

You're located in
(US) UNITED STATES,
CALIFORNIA,
BEVERLY HILLS

Your latitude/longitude is
34.0749° LATITUDE and -118.399° LONGITUDE

You're connecting to the Internet through
CO-LOCATION.COM INC

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Both correct

- JaAG

 

[eakers]

both really wrong

 

[DaWhim]

both are right because i am behind a .edu line.

 

[LtPage1]

both were dead on.

 

[Armitage]

First one was off by about 1100 miles. Second one was right on.

 

[catnap1972]

#1 narrowed it to the USA (WOW!)
#2 dead wrong

 

[Babbles]

Both were wrong on the locations, but did get my provider correct.

 

[WildHorse]

For me,

ip2location is wrong by 140 miles

maxmind is wrong by only 40 miles

 

[thejnaitor]

ip2location was accurate for me.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

both had the city satate and zipcode correct. maxmind was about 500ft closer on that lat/long

 

[spidey07]

lol, they're both getting their information from the same source.

 

[fatpat268]

1st one was off by 80 miles or so, and the second one was dead on.

 

[Rufus12]

Neither are right.

 

[DainBramaged]

Maxmind nailed it. The first one was about 20 miles off.

 

[bctbct]

first one off 1000+ miles but the second was right.

 

[Jawo]

1st just said I was in the US
2nd said I was pretty close....but its FiOS, not DSL!

 

[altonb1]

1st had be over 2 hours away in a different state. #2 had me in the right state and correct area code.

Both had the correct provider.

 

[b0mbrman]

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! If either are off, can you indicate by how much approximately?

Both gave the same answer, approximately 20 km off

[Edit] Based on the lat-long, both are exactly 24.2338 km off

 

[BatmanNate]

Both were wrong for me. Max put me in Spanaway and IP2 put me in Tacoma, when I am in fact in Puyallup. Tacoma and Spanaway are both neighboring cities, although Tacoma is perhaps closer.

 

[n19htmare]

first one got my county
second one got exact location

 

[jlee]

The first one tells me I'm in the United States. The second one has the correct state, but incorrect city (~100mi off).

Edit: Bah..misvoted. :|