07-13-19 16:12 MICHAEL LOO wrote to DALE SHIPP about 665 oddities cotd
Howdy! Michael and Dale,

 ML> {at}MSGID: 
 >  > Possibly the router wanted to route you elsewhere?
 >  ML> Through somebody else's computer.
 >  ML> It recently tumbled to where I am. I cleared the caches,
 >  ML> and it still does. When I arrived here, it had me a few
 >  ML> dozen miles east.
 > When you originally mentioned this displacement, I checked my location
 > and it said Harper's Choice, Columbia Maryland.

 ML> I've checked periodically throughout my Internet
 ML> experience, and sometimes all of my cookies or
 ML> trackers agree on my location, and sometimes it's
 ML> right to within a block and sometimes it's way off.
 ML> When I stay in Hiltons, I'm deemed to be in Kansas
 ML> or someplace. More often there's no consensus as
 ML> to where I am. Right now every cookie I can think
 ML> of has me within walking distance of where I am.

I live in Southern Indiana and use DSL from AT&T.

Websites usually don't show my location correctly, most of them 'think'
I am in the Indianapolis Area in the middle of the State of Indiana.

That's O.K. with me if AT&T has me in "STEALTH" Mode.

Usually when I visit the website for a local Store:

(Meijer, Target, Wal*Mart, Kroger etc., etc., etc.)

to see if they stock the item I'm wanting to buy, or the cost for it.

The first page that shows up will be for their Store in a City around the
Indianapolis Area and I have to go to the Option to Switch To their Store
located in MY Area.

I suppose AT&T sends my DSL service up to their equipment in Indianapolis
before it goes out on the WWWeb.

See Tagline.

73 de Ed W9ODR                      .      .


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