IP Geolocation continues to be a miserable failure
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For example, the device's IP address can theoretically be utilized to determine the country, city, or ZIP code, thereby determining its geographical location.
In actual practice it's a utter crock of steaming horse manure.
My continuing perturbance with Spectrum's utter inability and multiple failures to publish correct IP geolocation data for my subnet led me to test a random IP address on a variety of IP geolocation sites with very humorus results. I checked a mobile ip 166.137.19.x against 7 of the various free IP geolocation sites on the web and got 7 different locations in 7 different states.
Most of the stated addresses were distal to each other across multiple state jurisdictions. I suppose one of these may had been correct but that determination was impossible from the data extracted. I find it amazing how inept people who sell data services are.
I always prided myself on sophisticated code providing accurate results. That which I provided is not available to me now that I'm winding down.
To be fair, I have utilized a few IP Geolocation providers who were totally accurate — but they had obviously incorporated whois data and derived my exact street address and tied it to the subnet whereas most including google, bing, and various retail presence sites did not.
Spectrum, google, and bing you are ALL stupid companies ... but you're not the only ones by a long shot. I'm surrounded by incompetence calling itself technical expertise.
Boo dullards !
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