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Where Does Cloudflare Think I Am?

It claims London E1W for my IPv4 and IPv6 RIPE PI space, and the same location/postcode for my EE home broadband. Generic 'London data centre' postcode? Or the location of the nearest Cloudflare POP, maybe? (Whois on the PI blocks shows a correct postcode some distance from London FWIW.)

[Edit: same location and postcode for a Vodafone UK v4 address too.]

4 days agoqhwudbebd
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4 days ago

Correct country (in the EU) but off by hundreds of kilometers. I find it rarely to be correct whenever I get a "new login from..." mail from Google or others.

4 days agonanoxide

Ir gets my zip code right but doesn't geolocate it properly. My zip code is a 0.2 sq miles.

4 days agocozzyd

Shows the town my ISP is in. Which seems like an odd approach.

3 days agoAndrewDucker

2.33 km off for me. Pretty cool

4 days agodextercd

500km off for me :)

Google is much better at this. They always open the map right where I am on my pc (Which does not have gps or WiFi, only internet and I don't allow location in the browser)

4 days agowolvoleo

Interesting!

On the Google search results page at the bottom there's a city name + "From your IP address" link. Clicking it shows a map with a circled region. It seems to match with what Google maps opens by default.

It's a little less accurate than Cloudflare in my case.

4 days agodextercd

Thanks! I didn't know that. I never use Google search directly anymore, always through SearXNG. So I hadn't noticed. It's indeed about 1km away from my actual location. Not bad. I'm about 500m outside the circle.

3 days agowolvoleo
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4 days ago

Off by 300 kms for me

4 days agoleosanchez

was off by 15 miles / 24 kms for me