On 03/06/2026 20:51, Anne Frank wrote:

Does An IP Address Show Your Location...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl1776iFt0

Best VPN: NymVPN: The world's most private VPN

https://nym.com/

DO NOT TRUST EVERYTHING BRAXMAN SAYS.
HE'S SPOUTED ABSOLUTE RUBBISH ON SOME SUBJECTS SUCH AS IPV6.

Though in this case he's probably more or less right.

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

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On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:51:33 +0200, Anne Frank wrote:

Does An IP Address Show Your Location...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl1776iFt0

Best VPN: <censored>

https://<censored>

From internet perspective, a mere IP address only expose the location of the ISP. Never the actual location of the user.

The ISP can be one of ISP's branches instead of always be the HQ, if the ISP has branches. Which one is actually used, depends on the ISP and their
network condition.

The ISP's location is not necessarily the same as the user's location. Especially if the ISP is outside of user's city or even prefecture/province.

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On 2026-06-04 03:03, JJ wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:51:33 +0200, Anne Frank wrote:

Does An IP Address Show Your Location...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl1776iFt0

Best VPN: <censored>

https://<censored>

From internet perspective, a mere IP address only expose the location of the ISP. Never the actual location of the user.

For the actual location you need a court order. Then it can be found,
but not instantly.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
ES??, EU??;

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On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 08:37:11 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2026-06-04 03:03, JJ wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:51:33 +0200, Anne Frank wrote:

Does An IP Address Show Your Location...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl1776iFt0

Best VPN: <censored>

https://<censored>

From internet perspective, a mere IP address only expose the location of the
ISP. Never the actual location of the user.

For the actual location you need a court order. Then it can be found,
but not instantly.

If that happens, then good luck.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.15
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On 05/06/2026 00:12, T wrote:

On 6/3/26 12:59 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:51:33 +0200, Anne Frank wrote:

Does An IP Address Show Your Location...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl1776iFt0

Best VPN: NymVPN: The world's most private VPN

https://nym.com/

Since I use Verizon wireless my IP address puts me in a suburb of Denver.
That's 900 miles from my front door.

I am using AT&T 5G and it puts me i Burbank California,
meaning my Roku channels that are not commercial free
have been drowning me in Left Wing political commercials.
Some of them are pretty nasty.ÿ We do not talk that way
here in Northern Nevada.

To see what you can get from your IP address:

<win><R> cmd
curl --connect-timeout 2 --silent ipinfo.io -o -

For me ipinfo.io seems pretty inaccurate, db-ip.com is much closer.
I'm sure I found a service a few years ago that knew more or less
exactly the correct location of my IP. I can't seem to find it now.

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

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On Fri, 6/5/2026 4:54 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

T wrote:

<win><R> cmd

curl --connect-timeout 2 --silent ipinfo.io -o -

Hmm! Just copy/pasting that into an Administrator Command Prompt screen, I just get

Quote
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26200.7171]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
End Quote

curl started appearing in Win10 insider builds from 2017 onwards, so you should have it, I presume you did hit enter after pasting?

The quoted material is the output caused
by executing cmd.exe on a Win11 machine [26200].

Daniel hasn't typed the curl command yet.

There is a curl.exe in C:\Windows\system32 so
the command should work.

Curl is also a cmdlet in Powershell. Wget may also
be a cmdlet in Powershell, and at least for Wget,
it wraps a BITS service (for downloading). That's
one of the reasons for executing cmd.exe first,
so a Powershell cmdlet does not pick up the phone.

Paul

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On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 08:03:23 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:51:33 +0200, Anne Frank wrote:

Does An IP Address Show Your Location...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl1776iFt0

Best VPN: <censored>

https://<censored>

From internet perspective, a mere IP address only expose the location of
the ISP. Never the actual location of the user.

The ISP can be one of ISP's branches instead of always be the HQ, if the
ISP has branches. Which one is actually used, depends on the ISP and
their network condition.

The ISP's location is not necessarily the same as the user's location. Especially if the ISP is outside of user's city or even
prefecture/province.

I have tried different sites that try to locate me. They show different places, but the most common is about 100 miles away.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Definition of a computer: A device designed to speed up and automate
errors."

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On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 08:21:58 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

T wrote:

To see what you can get from your IP address:

<win><R> cmd curl --connect-timeout 2 --silent ipinfo.io -o -

That puts me 90 miles away from my actual location, which is fine by me.

That one put me 20 miles away (same as Wal-Mart), rather than the 100
miles of the other site (same as google maps and Amazon). Lowe's says I'm someplace else, 30 miles away.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Definition of a computer: A device designed to speed up and automate
errors."

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.15
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 06/06/2026 01:46, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 13:40:01 -0700, T wrote:

On 6/5/26 12:17 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 00:46:00 +0100, Brian Gregory wrote:

For me ipinfo.io seems pretty inaccurate, db-ip.com is much closer.

dp-ip.com puts me in Big Sandy MT. The IP agrees with what I get from
https://whatismyipaddress.com/ but there's nothing in Big Sandy except
Jon Tester since he lost the last election. It's Verizon Wireless and
usually the location is in Denver. The IPs are also transient so how
the database associated it with Big Sandy is a good question. Anyway
it's 250 miles from where I really am.

The location you get is where your service exits its service and enters
the backbone of the internet. Mine is giving out IP address based on
their service being in Burbank.

That part I understand. It was SLC for a time but seems to have settled on Aurora. My question is how dp-ip.com pulled Big Sandy out of its butt for something that is obviously a member of Verizon's rotating IP pool.

It's all very haphazard, especially for mobile IPs that get randomly allocated, or even, in the case of IPv4, shared, all over a large area.

I was testing my static IPv4 at home, so it ought to be easier to get it right, and obviously it used to be easier because one IP location
service used to get within around two or three miles. The closest I can
find now is something in the region of 40 miles off, many services just
give the location of the head office of my ISP.

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

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