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Bubb1ez

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#103111 30-May-2012 17:41
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So I moved from Dunedin to Christchurch a few months ago, and moved into a flatting/boarding situation. My landlord was using an old wireless modem (no 802.11n etc) so I set up my BoBlite I had lying around from Orcon. 
All was well until I started noticing, when I was at home, my PSVita was saying I was in Dunedin,  
Speedtest.net, when refining my location thinks I'm in Saint Clair, Christchurch, So it gets I'm in christchurch from my IP address I'm assuming but something is telling it I'm also in Dunedin. 
If I use google maps to find my location over WiFi it puts me exactly in my old place down in Dunedin.
I have done a full reset of the modem and am running the latest firmware, so I'm completely clueless as to how to solve this.
Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Marcus 

Just found that I can manually register a location with skyhook, however I tried this but still no success.

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kyhwana2
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  #632779 30-May-2012 18:03
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Hah, yep, that happens.
You need to contact google about it or go outside with a GPS lock + google maps + wifi turned on.
http://www.basitali.com/2012/02/google-knows-your-router-location-but-its-wrong.html
(Although I havn't seen any way of actually talking to google about incorrect location data. You just have to wait till it gets updated)




Bubb1ez

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  #632785 30-May-2012 18:14
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Blah, I will just have to wait then I guess. Thanks.
Interesting note though, Google shows my last address in Dunedin, but the vita shows the address before that.

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