I have been having problems with location service in regards to my home wi-fi hot-spot, it just does not locate me anywhere. I bought the router in the US. Does anybody know whether that fact has anything to do with the fact that I cannot locate myself?
MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010), iOS 6.1.2, Ipad and Ipod
only the wifi only ipads don't have a gps and rely on the wifi router for location and if the router does not support that you will not get any location
If you have the WiFi-only iPad your location is determined by the location of nearby WiFi routers. This is done by using a Apple location database which contains the MAC addresses of routers and their physical location. A MAC address is a unique number which is built-in to all network devices when manufactured. The Apple database is built and updated by Apple GPS-enabled devices (primarily iPhones) actually seeing your router and then adding/updating the router's location in the database.
Bottom line: Your Router is not yet in the Apple location database. It hasn't been seen yet and added to the database. There isn't any problem with your router or your iPad.
Yes, you defenitively answered my question, although it's been more than a year I bought my router and every time I come back home none my devices (MacAir, Ipod Touch, Ipad) locate anything. Is there a way how I can send this information to Apple so I can start checking in on my 4square? :-)
gutembergfox wrote:
Yes, you defenitively answered my question, although it's been more than a year I bought my router and every time I come back home none my devices (MacAir, Ipod Touch, Ipad) locate anything. Is there a way how I can send this information to Apple so I can start checking in on my 4square? :-)
I don't know of any manual interface to inform Apple of location information.
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