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What sytem is used for determining where the mac book or cell phone located? WEB? Cellphone towers?

I am fumbling thru for the first time using this system. I am interested in determining what system is used to determine the location of the iphone, macbook pro. Is it based on WEB comnecttivity or Cell phone tower connectivity?

I do not believe it is based on satillites. Is this true?


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Posted on Aug 30, 2013 6:02 AM

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Posted on Aug 30, 2013 6:08 AM

NAF player wrote:


Is it based on WEB comnecttivity or Cell phone tower connectivity?

Yes. It uses a combination of cell tower triangulation in combination with locations of known WiFi networks that are visible to the device.

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Aug 30, 2013 6:30 AM in response to NAF player

NAF player wrote:


I am fumbling thru for the first time using this system. I am interested in determining what system is used to determine the location of the iphone, macbook pro. Is it based on WEB comnecttivity or Cell phone tower connectivity?

I do not believe it is based on satillites. Is this true?

I believe that it also uses GPS (if it is a devices with GPS such as an iPhone or iPad with Cellular) which does involve satellites.

What sytem is used for determining where the mac book or cell phone located? WEB? Cellphone towers?

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