Comments on: Lunch With MaxMind, Giant Red Shoes http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2008/10/lunch-with-maxmind-giant-red-shoes/ Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary Thu, 24 May 2012 21:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Evans http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2008/10/lunch-with-maxmind-giant-red-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-226109 David Evans Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:15:26 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2008/10/lunch-with-maxmind-giant-red-shoes/#comment-226109 The generic lookup services you are using are nowhere near as targeted as anti-fraud solutions, which have many other features to help triangulate fraud (not necessarily your exact location.) Your reaction is common, you are assuming that since you have a slow car, all cars must be slow. Why on earth do you restart your cable modem 20 times a day? Maybe that's part of your problem. I restart mine maybe once a month. The generic lookup services you are using are nowhere near as targeted as anti-fraud solutions, which have many other features to help triangulate fraud (not necessarily your exact location.)

Your reaction is common, you are assuming that since you have a slow car, all cars must be slow.

Why on earth do you restart your cable modem 20 times a day? Maybe that’s part of your problem. I restart mine maybe once a month.

]]> By: Fernando Ardenghi http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2008/10/lunch-with-maxmind-giant-red-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-225918 Fernando Ardenghi Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:40:43 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2008/10/lunch-with-maxmind-giant-red-shoes/#comment-225918 Every time I restart the broadband modem, it changes the IP Address. It is funny to see how wrong GeoIP could be to detect my location. (I restart it nearly 20 times per day) Screenshot1 http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mistake1hc4.jpg GeoIP thinks I am in Trelew Screenshot2 http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mistake2sf1.jpg GeoIP thinks I am in Viedma Screenshot3 http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mistake3kb7.jpg GeoIP thinks I am in Puerto Madryn and I am really in other city It is like you are in Boston and GeoIP thinks you are in Miami, or you are in Boston and GeoIP thinks you are in Dallas. or you are in Boston and GeoIP thinks you are in Houston. Kindest Regards, Fernando Ardenghi. Buenos Aires. Argentina. ardenghifer@gmail.com Every time I restart the broadband modem, it changes the IP Address.
It is funny to see how wrong GeoIP could be to detect my location.

(I restart it nearly 20 times per day)

Screenshot1
http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mistake1hc4.jpg
GeoIP thinks I am in Trelew

Screenshot2
http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mistake2sf1.jpg
GeoIP thinks I am in Viedma

Screenshot3
http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mistake3kb7.jpg
GeoIP thinks I am in Puerto Madryn

and I am really in other city

It is like you are in Boston and GeoIP thinks you are in Miami,
or
you are in Boston and GeoIP thinks you are in Dallas.
or
you are in Boston and GeoIP thinks you are in Houston.

Kindest Regards,

Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com

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