On Monday 20 July 2015 22:42:39 Mike Bird wrote:
> On Mon July 20 2015 14:26:46 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > They could be fairly close - I haven't yet pinpointed them in their
> > States, but the states are adjacent.  Could this be the difference
> > between location and registered office to use UK terminology?  Or are
> > Timothy and his servers just separated?  After all, it is possible ot
> > live on one continenet and have a server on another.
>
> Geolocation via IP address is a guess, and often a bad guess.  One of
> my servers is in Washington (state) but various geolocation algorithms
> place it in Utah or Texas - that's roughly the same error as placing
> Rochdale in Greece.
>
> Tim said his whois is correct, so "whois pearsoncomputing.net" on
> the command line implies that his server is in Belvidere Illinois,
> a mere three hundred miles from geolocation's guess.

I had got an idea of Illinois from somewhere, but the idea was so vague I 
didn't want to rely on it. :-/

Lisi