hlstatsx & player locations

[Mortivex]

How does this work?

What I mean is, let's say I look at the '// NRM clan list,' and I see a list of all the people who're tagged up, and a little map of where they're located...like here. (http://tnr.hlstatsx.com/hlstats.php?mode=claninfo&clan=8762)

I was playing the other day and mentioned something to kilatsat about being from Tewksbury...he said he wasn't - now I even look at me, I'm not where it says I'm from!

I'm pretty sure given the internet technology we possess nowadays, that listing a location would be a simple thing.

Is it listing ISP/server location and not your actual locale?

This isn't really important or anything, just curious.

[kilatsat]

I don't even understand why mine would EVER say Tewksbury... talk about 20+ miles away from my location, school, AND isp (which is also my school)

[GreenEnvy]

It reports the location of where your IP is registered.
goto www.whatismyip.com to get your IP. Now goto http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp, type in the IP, and select IP.
It will tell you where that IP is registered.

[kilatsat]

OrgName: Northeastern University
OrgID: NORTHE-7
Address: 360 Huntington Avenue
City: BOSTON
StateProv: MA
PostalCode: 01876
Country: US


!= Tewksbury

[aSydiK]

I'm pretty sure it's the location of a specific server you're connecting through to get to the internet... basically it's an ISP server.

[Lopert]

So, does that mean everytime I use a different connection (ie, at work, at a friend's, at home) it will swap me areas?

[aSydiK]

Unless it routes the same way or something, it should.

[GreenEnvy]

So, does that mean everytime I use a different connection (ie, at work, at a friend's, at home) it will swap me areas?

Yep, if they are all on different isp's, or maybe even on same isp but on another IP block registered to a different area.

[Mortivex]

I've been peeking at this lately since we started the discussion - mine changes every few days - I didn't think with dsl/cable you could really change where you "dial" into..

[aSydiK]

It could route to a different server and it depends where they take your point of location from (like the 4th hop could be where they're taking it from and your 4th server could change)

[GreenEnvy]

It could route to a different server and it depends where they take your point of location from (like the 4th hop could be where they're taking it from and your 4th server could change)

Yep, the actual hardware in your neighbourhood isn't assigning you an IP, thats being done a couple hops down the line. for large isp's, they'll have several pools of IP's to choose from there. depending on what address they used when registering those ip's, you'll see a different location.