On Monday 20 July 2015 22:51:27 Felix Miata wrote:
> 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.

This is much more interesting than the geography lessons when I did sixth 
grade a _long_ time ago!

Lisi