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Well, it gets my country correctly :)

Wonder how it fares in different countries (For me, it shows me as London, UK whereas I'm actually a hundred or so miles outside London).



Well, it's going to give location of your IP, not your body (or even your CPU). I, for example, am in the middle of a cow paddy. But correctly offers the name of the town where my IP is based (not the city to which my body is geographically closer). Such are the relativities of "locating" a person according to IP.


this is what the name suggest "IP Address Geolocation"


Right. I'm just pointing out that it's not really all that useful to know where someones ISP is based, if it's hundreds of miles away from them.


For me it is working very fine. Bombay, India




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