It is close. Really nice effect and visual feedback while it is hitting each location.
Show HN: Improved passive TCP/IP geolocation
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#12I'm in San Francisco. It failed to work that out but it at least figuring I was probably in CA.
Southern CA, for the most part (or at best the central valley).
That's underwhelming and I wouldn't call it "improved" in the slightest.
edit: on refresh it thinks I'm around the Azores or maybe the south coast of Greenland. Not impressed.
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#13Ran this about 10 times, it never once entered the correct hemisphere.
Hint: I don't live in the northern one.
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#14Ran this about 10 times, it never once entered the correct hemisphere. Hint: I don't live in the northern one.
Same, it put me in California, but I'm in ...Australia
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#15Ran this about 10 times, it never once entered the correct hemisphere. Hint: I don't live in the northern one.
I live in New Zealand and this thing thinks I'm somewhere in Western USA.
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#16Not even the right continent for me.
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#17I ran it 3 times from my iPhone in Tokyo. Results were Iran/Afghanistan, China/Taiwan, and Saudi Arabia.
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#18For me it often comes close, but seems to be unable to converge on my actual location.
It always ends up stuck south east of it. I am in San Francisco.
The other passive geo system put a larger circle right around SF when I tried it.
My guess is that none of the hosts it pings are to the north or west of me, or that they stick the hosts on a grid that doesn't wrap around to the nearest location, so it is biased towards the east/south.
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#19Apparently Japan is smack in the middle of the Atlantic. Who knew?