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Re: "Microsoft Location Finder" - how is it supposed to work ?
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| QuienEs 2005-10-23, 5:48 pm |
| Many thanks Clarence, for your quick and good explanation. I was
hoping that MLF would be more than a "toy" and now understand why
uSoft had me confused, it's because they never said something like:
"If you are connected to the Internet and wonder where you are this
free program is what you need" :-)
Cheers, QE in NJ
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:20:29 +0000 (UTC),
dold@XReXXXMicr.usenet.us.com wrote:
|QuienEs < QuienEsREMOVETHIS@an
dthisoptonline.net> wrote:
|> It determines your location, when it can, by accesing a uSoft
|> database of WiFI MAC addresses.
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|> Is the database built into Microsoft Location Finder ?
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|No. You must have a usable internet connection. The Location Finder
looks
|at the "available wireless networks" to see if any of them are in its
|database. You don't need to be connected through one of them.
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|There is a hotspot near me. I don't connect to it. When I am
connected to
|my wired LAN, Microsoft Location Finder locates my position. If I
disable
|the WiFi, my indicated location changes to my ISP's location.
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|Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5
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| Jeff Liebermann 2005-10-23, 5:48 pm |
| On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:44:18 -0400, QuienEs
< QuienEsREMOVETHIS@AN
DTHISoptonline.net> wrote:
>Many thanks Clarence, for your quick and good explanation. I was
>hoping that MLF would be more than a "toy" and now understand why
>uSoft had me confused, it's because they never said something like:
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>"If you are connected to the Internet and wonder where you are this
>free program is what you need" :-)
This is the same thing from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&DisplayLang=en
with a few words of explanation. Note that it's specifically for
"Wi-Fi enabled laptops", etc.
You might also find these of interest:
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
http://www.networldmap.com/TryIt.htm
which apparently use whois to guess the location.
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Jeff Liebermann jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
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