Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-20 22:26 (UTC+0100): > midi-pascal wrote: >> If you read Tim's answer on this thread and try >> http://www.whois.com/whois/ with "quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net" you >> will get a pretty different location than the one given by freegeoip. >> You will even see all the postal coordinates of PearsonComputing... > They could be fairly close - I haven't yet pinpointed them in their States, > but the states are adjacent. Might seem so, but apparently not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeburg,_Missouri east central Missouri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvidere,_Illinois extreme north central Illinois, nearly Wisconsin, not far from where I lived, in Walworth, WI, during pre-school summers. I'm guessing there's at least a 5 hour drive between them, but not too far that the whole area couldn't be contiguous for a single fiber optic backbone. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/