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j0hn

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2018, 07:51:16 PM »

No idea how Apple works this out.

With Google/Android if I connect my Android phone to an ISP router, with default SSID, and enable all the relevant location permissions, Google will pin that SSID you that location.

If I stood in the street some time later with a different phone, with GPS/3G/4G location off, and only WiFi location on, it directs straight to my house.

I've noticed this over the years and changing SSID used to lose the ability to get location from WiFi only.

However now I have so many unique ISP SSID's around me, any device be it Apple or Android, is pretty accurate at working out the location using WiFi only when in my house.

I used to use an SSID of BASE.
WiFi location wasn't as accurate with that.
I imagine that's a common SSID.

You could try changing SSID to something unique if it isn't already, if you want it to be more accurate.
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johnson

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2018, 08:13:51 PM »

Can they not use MAC addresses? I know wireless broadcast packets contain them and they should be more unique than SSIDs.
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Re: Location Services
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2018, 08:44:05 PM »

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2018, 08:56:29 PM »

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2018, 09:07:42 PM »

By local wifi disabled you mean the ipad had no internet access? How would it perform the look up using the in range SSID/APs then? Its not like it stores a local database of all the wifi networks in the country to allow geolocation with no internet access.

Sorry it was just part of trying to isolate the issue. Obvious when you mentioned it

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2018, 09:41:22 PM »

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2018, 10:09:47 PM »

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2018, 02:11:38 PM »

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Re: Location Services
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2018, 03:43:20 PM »

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