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Wifi ipad shows wrong location when connected at home. When connected at a public wifi it's correct. My first gen ipod touch shows the right location even at home. Apple suggests it is in the linksys router setup. Linksys suggested a reset to factory defaults, but that did not help. Have been through the ipad reset, the network reset without success. Any ideas?
iPad 2
The WiFi location determination is sloppy at best. There is quite a bit of secrecy about the mechanism but apparently some WiFi routers are identified in a database that's used by Location Services. In any event, the physically closest router that's in the database is used to identify your location.
I live in house #7. My home is never identified as the location. Usually, house #1 (100 yards down the street) is given as the location as my neighbor there always has his router powered. However, when my neighbor across the street in either #6 or #8 powers up his router, my location changes to whichever one is powered. If both are powered, it picks #6.
I have been completely unable to figure out how to get my router in the database.
Quick update to the above. After about a half hour I tried another ipad (I have lots of kids and grandkids with ipads so I get to experiment with different things) which at first showed a good location in maps (within 300 ft and centered correctly) but the circle and center point suddenly disappeared, and the arrow you press for location disappeared as well. All I did was went to Settings - Wi-Fi - and selected "Forget this Network". Re-logged back on to that same router and instantly got the same position and circle as the other iPads I had been testing with. ???
My wifi ipad shows the wrong physical location when connected at home.
