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| Thread ID: 146164 | 2018-05-09 00:34:00 | Why does my phone think I'm in Invercargill? | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1449396 | 2018-05-09 00:34:00 | I live in Auckland, but my Android phone has started feeding me ads all about Invercargill. How come? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1449397 | 2018-05-09 02:53:00 | It's part of our underground movement to save Aucklanders from themselves by distributing the more worthy ones around the country. You have been assigned to Invercargill. Or maybe you just searched something that led google to believe you were interested in Invercargill, that's almost as likely. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1449398 | 2018-05-09 03:16:00 | Thank you for describing me as "more worthy" - you know me so well. :) I can't think of anything I've searched for that would lead me in the direction of the deep south. I've also noticed on the PC that Speedtest usually links me to a server in Wellington, but I suspect that is because of the location of my ISP. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1449399 | 2018-05-10 07:39:00 | I have no problem with my phone thinking that it is in Invercargill.:D | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1449400 | 2018-05-10 22:14:00 | I have no problem with my phone thinking that it is in Invercargill.:D perhaps those ph's are so old , that its assumed Invercargill is the only place with matching old tech The crank handle on the side of the ph is a sign its time to upgrade . :) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1449401 | 2018-05-11 23:14:00 | It's a conspiracy to confuse people! I have a static IP address on my ADSL line, and I regularly get told that I'm in Auckland (and occasionally other places) even though I'm based in Porirua. (A nudge towards an serious answer: the info used by some systems to figure out where you are is, at best, an approximation, and isn't as accurate as GPS) |
lisati (15462) | ||
| 1449402 | 2018-05-11 23:26:00 | (A nudge towards an serious answer: the info used by some systems to figure out where you are is, at best, an approximation, and isn't as accurate as GPS)That's a large approximation - Auckland to Invercargill. Funnily enough it seems to have stopped now. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1449403 | 2018-05-12 03:52:00 | That's a large approximation - Auckland to Invercargill. Funnily enough it seems to have stopped now. It got the right country at least ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1449404 | 2018-05-12 06:41:00 | I found this: www.techwalla.com Not NZ, but perhaps a similar issue? |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1449405 | 2018-05-12 06:49:00 | I found this: www.techwalla.com Not NZ, but perhaps a similar issue? Interesting, but I think not applicable. That would imply I've been in the deep south recently so that those towers were the closest. That's certainly not true. Still, an interesting insight into how roaming works. |
Tony (4941) | ||
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