[members-discuss] My Question To All LIR Members

ahh so I think I get it now...

    We have a lot of customers who are not from this country or do not 
natively speak English (we are entirely UK based) . So if they opt to 
use say Spanish websites and resources then Maxmind and others make a 
drastic assumption about the IP address and/or block those customer(s) use ?

One of our customers who had this problem for example runs a Hotel and 
provides WiFi to their guests.  As the language and nationality of those 
guests is entirely unpredictable , Maxmind will completely screw up that 
hotels IP origin/location.

What happens with those providers who give out IP's from a dynamic pool 
? Must be even more hell for them.

Well done Maxmind for a madly stupid algorithm..

At least we know where to direct the more litigious customers if they 
blow a fuse over not being able to watch online content.

bill
On 28/05/2014 11:52, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:35:39AM +0100, admin at intl-alliance.com wrote:
>> There is no reliable method that Maxmind can use to
>> determine where our end-users are physically located. So I don't buy
>> into their story about their fancy algorithm or traffic patterns.
> This is the point: they *are* telling the world "we don't know where these
> users are".  So what are you complaining about?
>
> Gert Doering
>          -- NetMaster
>
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Bill Lewis
Kijoma Broadband

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