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