Use my location does not work when I move away from Wireless Router.

Anyone know how this functions?

A few apps ask if you wish to use your location.

If I am near my wireless router, less than 10 feet away it works fine.

If I move further away, perhaps in another room, now 20 feet away, I still get a good wireless signal and fast download speed test times, and yet now it cannot find my location.

Has always been this way.

 

Ok, I can accept that it's not actually finding my physical iPad location, but rather my Wireless router location.

But my question is still the same.

Why can't apps find my router location when my iPad is a little further away from the router?

 

Correct, I stand next to my wireless router and apps CAN find my location (or perhaps to be technically correct the location of the router)

But if I move into another room (the signal then going through 1 or 2 walls about 15 feet away) and I can still get around 15 or 20 megabit download speeds.

Then apps say they can't find my location.

It confuses me. And as I said it's always been this way.

I would of thought if I can still get a strong signal then there should be no difference.

The signal may be a bit less due to distance and going through walls, but still plenty fast enough for online access from the iPad.

 

Perhaps you are right about the former point. Signal strength. Though I can still get 20 megabit download speed from the speedtest website test, so it's still very good, if not the absolute max I get standing right next.

Perhaps it stepped down one notch if you know what I mean.

On the neighbour front. there is no-one near me with wireless. certainly no other networks at all in range.

 

I typed in my address and it came up ok.
The position is a bit off but it's there.

There are no other WiFi points around that I can find.

 

No, I did not do that.

Is there and privacy or security issue with submitting my MAC Address of my own Wireless Router?

Also.

Is it my WAN or LAN Mac address that's needed by that site?

Just looked. Seems like I need the Wireless MAC address for that site.

But my question is the same, am I risking anything giving out my Wireless Mac address?

 

You know what.

I am wondering. Just wondering if there may be something in what has been said about My router not being registered or another WiFi signal as when I do get a lock it puts my point on a house near me.

but that said, I still don't understand as the info must be going to and from the system via my router?

Again, I need to know if there and security info putting my WiFi mac address into that web site?

I always thought you wanted to keep that secret?

 

Thanks to you all for your advice.

I have now submitted my address the skyhook and will see if it fix's my issue.

I am thinking you may well be right as it gives my location as a house across the road. Though I can't see their wireless network to connect to unless I walk out into the road.

But in my home when I can use the my location option it does give my location as this other house (200 feet away from where I am now)

So you may well be right that, whilst the iPad cannot detect it as a network, somehow the skyhook thing may be?

So everytime anyone in the world buys a new wireless router they have to submit this to the Skyhook people?

I can't imagine hardly anyone does.