[TriLUG] Goelocation service suggestions?

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 15:53:39 EST 2006


Well, I for one have no real gripes with CTC in Heritage, either for
voice or DSL. I don't use voip however.

They only provide the last mile, the ISP is really vnet.

On 2/5/06, Shane O'Donnell <shaneodonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> We've got CTC in Bedford (North Raleigh) too and, as Jon said, they've
> got the community locked in to them as a sole provider.
>
> When they told me I had no choice, I called Vonage (which I use over
> my cable modem).  A few small glitches, but haven't looked back since.
>  My telco box outside remains unconnected.
>
> And insofar as this thread is concerned, my cable IP identified me in Raleigh.
>
> Shane O.
>
> On 2/2/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/2/06, Robert Ryals <rryals at tmio.com> wrote:
> > >  Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > >  On 2/2/06, Robert Ryals <rryals at tmio.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  Check out Geobytes - http://www.geobytes.com/
> > >
> > >  And this one got the correct state, but says I'm in Concord, NC.
> > >
> > >
> > >  I have had spotty results with those as well.  I just found another one
> > > www.maxmind.com    I spot checked 10 or so IP's around the US and their
> > > database was 100% accurate.  It's not a free service but they only charge
> > > $20 for 50,000 web service hits.
> >
> > They've got me in Kannapolis.
> >
> > I do have to tell you that my ip address is a bit tricky.  My isp is
> > CTC, which is the local telco JUST for Heritage Wake Forest in this
> > area.  They are based in Concord (hence the first C). When the
> > community was new, a lot of on-line directories had our phone numbers
> > mapped to our street addresses, but in Concord, despite the fact that
> > we DO have a 919 area code.
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