Location Services Not Working - Macbook Pro and IPad2

Thanks for the info - I had read your earlier similar reply which made me ponder the possible use of my cell-phone as a hotspot.

After posting I setup my IPad to link though my cell phone by the Bluetooth function but still could not be located on the IPad; my phone accurately showed me in building complex I am now using as accommodation.

I switched the WiFi on the cell-phone off and lost my location on the phone.

When I re-enabled the phone WiFi on the phone the location came up immediately on the phone but not on the IPad.

This suggests that the router is up to date and passing through the info to the phone - but neither the IPad nor laptop seem to be picking up the location data.

From earlier posts I came to understand that laptops/IPads obtained the location services via WiFi routers, or WiFi hotspots; i.e. they had no in-built GPS services.

Does your reply mean that the GPS signals for a smart phone are received in a smart phone via the WiFi electronics - if I turn off WiFi on the phone I lose my location on the phone?

Thanks for the comment, but it does not really clarify the situation outlined in my 2nd post.

If I try to determine my position with either Laptop or IPad, while in my apartment, I receive the message "Your location cannot be determined at this time".

With WiFi turned ON, my Huawei phone shows my location very accurately while in the same location, although I do not know which 'path' the phone was using. On the phone, I turned WiFi OFF and immediately lost my location on the phone - this suggests to me that the location service was working through the WiFi. system.

After a bit more fiddling since receiving your message I looked further into the phone set-up (I have had only 2 days) and found options for location service which allowed GPS only, or high accuracy (using GPS, WLAN and mobile networks).

When I switched to GPS only my location is shown on a map.

When I switch to high accuracy with WiFi ON my location is shown. BUT if I switch off WiFi on the phone, my location is lost via the high accuracy route.

So it appears that while my phone WiFi is ON I can get a location via the WiFi route in combination with the GPS/mobile network.

This suggests, to me, that the WiFi network is passing along the location data to the phone.

This being the case why does the location service NOT work on the Macbook or IPad?

I guessed you were referring to the IPhone.

I introduced the workings of my Huawei phone to indicate that my router seems to be working ok - i.e. passing on data needed by location services to the phone - in another post string there had been mention that some routers do not pass through this data.

So the problem remains the same - neither my IPad nor Macbook seem able to determine my location via the WiFi in my apartment.

Status of both IPad and Laptop:

WiFi ON; China selected as region in System Preferences; unable to determine location displayed in the Time Zone area of Date/time of System Preferences.

Following another earlier post I used Reset Network Settings under the General Tab of Settings on the IPad and re-joined my network. The result here was similar to other posters - the icon appeared in the Menu Bar for about 5 seconds before disappearing.