Off the wall quuestion about browsing.

[Steve Searle]

Around 06:51pm on Saturday, February 28, 2009 (UK time), Aaron Konstam scrawled:

> I notice that when I browse certain sites they can determing what city I
> live in. How is that done? I can't figure that out.

Actually they determine where your ISP connects you to the internet.
Thus I am doomed to be shown as living in bloody London.

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation
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