How do i find someones location from mobile ip address?
 

If someone visits my website from a cellphone I get an ip address. I tried searching myself and it said I was in Canada which I'm not I'm in Los Angeles. Is there an accurate way to fine out someones location when they visit your site from a mobile phone?

no, cellphones dont have ip addresses unless you are using one as a modem dumbass.
thats why you see alot more NO REF in your trade script. and phones dont have cookies either. but i may be wrong, im not as geeky as some peeps here.

When I search latest visitor from a cellphone visitor it tells me there ip address so and it shows what device it came from like a Blackberry etc

I was under the impression that cellphones or 3g devices or whatever were assigned a dynamic IP upon connection. Sort of like dialup worked. That's how my aircard works, and I can't see how that'd be any different.

I know when I traceroute my IP on the aircard it says I'm in Ontario when I'm in BC though. So whatever the situation, I really can't see you findign an accurate location based upon IP for these type of devices, at least not at the moment.

Right...And he's the dumbass. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

oh, i thought you ment cellphones. blackberrys are not cellphones. they are smartphones. so whos the dumbass now?

I'm still casting my vote for you.

Well, an IP address is an IP address, so whatever method and whatever accuracy already exists should apply. Do you have a device? It would need to know it's own IP address, so you can test it yourself and see how close it comes.

so im right, right? cellphones dont have ips, and if they did we woulda ran outta ips long ago.

I don't know that you're right, but I would be curious to know myself. Personally I'd assume that upon connecting to the net you are assigned a temporary dynamic IP. Just like dialup would work. I don't really know and am just making an assumption, but thats about all it sounds like you're doing too.

I agree completely that if every mobile device was given an IP address of it's own we would have ran out of IPs long ago, but temporary assignment for the duration of the user's connection would cover that easily enough.

Does anybody actually know?

Yes, Cell phones do have IPs, But They are shared, the SIM card is what allows connection.

Hard Way:
You get GURFL GEOGRAPHIC UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LIBRARY, Match that IP within the CARRIER RANGE of IP Addresses. Then Match that IP with a list of Cell towers For that Given Range Then Triangulate from Three of those towers and get the signal strength. should pin point you within 200meters

Medium way:
Build an app for the Phone and Use the given API. NokiaWRT, iphone, Android. Any Webkit JS phone will do.

Easy:
Third, Just Use Google Gears API. Most Phones have Gears installed. Usually Built for Windows mobile ajax.

ipv4 & ipv6, thought ipv6 would allow 2-3 IPs per cubic meter on the whole globe.

Another thing I found this PAW Server for Google android phone and its cool you can serve html from your phone. On my windows mobile Phone I have this HPH pocket php server, So neet its like a compact PHP server.

I bet if you asked the carriers business service they would set you up with a dedicated IP. Wonder how much that costs.

Elite. :2 cents:

I searched around and could not find it because its discontinued. Anyways I pulled this from my DB I was setting up before google gears came out.


BTW: Like I said just use some available API like Gears or Twitter APIs, Much, Much Easier..

ok bird the nerd, sounds like you know more than most people here and you are probably right. so my razr is a cellphone, its not a smart phone. so it gets assigned a different ip every time i check email or sports scores or access the internet?

and where would that ip show up on ATX?

Every device has to know it's own IP. Thats a rule of IP. An IP is an IP, so you SHOULD be able to test it on yourself by first looking up the devices assigned IP once it is on the net. Now hit your web page. Now check your web logs for your IP. Now geo locate the ip as best you can using whatever method you can, looks like you should be able to nail it using methods described.

when you access the net on a cell phone, you're behind a firewall and going through some regional or national proxy server more often than not, so at best you might be able to determine the country or general area, but i doubt you'll get accuracy down to say the city.