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