Re: [93attendees] Location, Location, Location

[Ondřej Caletka <[e-mail]>]

Dne 23.7.2015 v 13:27 Jim Martin napsal(a):
> We've attempted to address this in a number of ways including notifying
> geolocation and content providers and bringing up the advertisements for
> the net early, but with limited success. We continue to try to improve
> things, but as this is a largely unstandardized process, it's a bit of
> 'whack a mole'. 

From my observation, the most important source of localisation, at least
for the Android devices, is the MAC address / BSSID of the Wi-Fi AP the
device is connected to. Other BSSIDs nearby have also some impact, but
the BSSID of the connected AP is only that powerful that it overrides
even GSM network based geolocation.

Would it be perhaps possible to regenerate new random BSSIDs for all APs
after each event? In my small scale experiment (one Wi-Fi router
operating at one place for a long time and then moved somewhere else),
this helped a lot.

Of course, the IP-address based geolocation is a different part of
story. But I think that work pretty good (I'm not allowed to use Netflix
or Hulu here, which I probably should be when in the US ;-D)

Cheers,
Ondřej Caletka