Poll: Let these sites guess your location based on IP

[Smartazz]

Both correct.

 

[jimbob200521]

Both gave the same wrong answer. It said that I was in a town that is about 15 minutes away from where I actually am.

 

[aceO07]

#1 - Right City
#2 - Right Zip Code. Scary.

 

[FoBoT]

both were 100% correct, on a corporate network, so that shouldn't be a surprise

 

[Unheard]

Maxmind was one city off, Franklin instead of Brentwood, TN. The other one put me in NJ.

 

[Linflas]

1st had my org right but missed the city by 80 miles
2nd had everything correct.

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: 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)

The second one is actually more accurate than I thought, I just checked the lat. lon. that it gave me and it was only 21 miles from my house and the first one's lat. lon. was 149 miles from my house

 

[chr6]

1st wrong
2nd right

 

[JujuFish]

Both were correct.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Both gave the same accurate answer.

Both answered correctly for me, but #2 listed our corporate ISP correctly, so I voted for them.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

1st one worked good, told me i live in middlesbrough which i do

2nd one was close, but said i lived in billingham (stockton-on-tees) its not too far away bout 15mins drive.

both got my ISP right

 

[jersiq]

1st one was off by ~1,700 miles

2nd one was correct.

 

[mitaiwan82]

ip2location was way off...said my IP was in Louisiana

 

[igowerf]

Both pointed to a location that's about 7 miles away. The second one was slightly closer.

 

[cyclistca]

1st wrong, places me in Calgary AB

2nd right, places me in Vancouver, BC

 

[sswingle]

Both are correct.

 

[Alex]

fist one only said brazil
second said sao paulo, brazil

 

[fenrir]

First one was 220 miles off (on the other side of the state).

Second one was a bit closer at 86 miles off. Sill way off though.

Matt

 

[Xylitol]

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?

1st one = Thinks im in Penn
2nd one = 100% accurate

 

[ScottFern]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Both gave the same accurate answer.

 

[Sqube]

1st one = Got the state
2nd one = Got the state, area code, city (wrong city, but close to where I am)

Both got ISP.

 

[Xyo II]

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

QFT

 

[Jeff7]

Both think I'm located in University Park, Pennsylvania. Only about 155 miles off.

I'm at a Penn State campus in Erie, PA. All of our network traffic, for whatever reason, is first routed through the main campus. This, coupled with a poorly configured bandwidth throttle, means that download speeds in campus residence halls and apartments can dip down below 56k during the day. Packet loss can skyrocket sometimes, causing constant timeouts, and very low download speeds.

 

[funboy6942]

Mindmax had me down to state and area code. The other was way off and said I was located in FL

 

[jadinolf]

Both wrong.

About 90 miles off.