Location location location

[jwt873]

Have you tried taking your iPad Air for a ride to a built-up area with one or more WiFi signals present? If your locations service still doesn't work even after doing a reset, then it probably is the Air.. In that case, I'd suggest returning it to Apple... '

But if you do get a location showing up with other WiFi signals nearby, then it's most likely that your location has some how 'fallen off' the database...

 

[Badlands]

Have you tried taking your iPad Air for a ride to a built-up area with one or more WiFi signals present? If your locations service still doesn't work even after doing a reset, then it probably is the Air.. In that case, I'd suggest returning it to Apple... '

But if you do get a location showing up with other WiFi signals nearby, then it's most likely that your location has some how 'fallen off' the database...

Will try that tomorrow.
Thank you.

 

[Badlands]

It does work away from home.

 

[scifan57]

It does work away from home.

That almost certainly means that the lack of location services while on your home WiFi is almost certainly the fault of your router. Is it possible for you to disconnect your router and try a different one?

 

[Badlands]

That almost certainly means that the lack of location services while on your home WiFi is almost certainly the fault of your router. Is it possible for you to disconnect your router and try a different one?

If I try a different router I have to call my provider & change lots of settings.......I will wait a while and see if Skyhook works. Thank you for your help.

 

[Gtatler]

If I try a different router I have to call my provider & change lots of settings.......I will wait a while and see if Skyhook works. Thank you for your help.

Surely not. If it was the modem then, yes, you may have to change some settings, although with Virgin Media such is not the case. But changing a router is much simpler - I know - I did it in less than 2 minutes.

 

[Badlands]

Surely not. If it was the modem then, yes, you may have to change some settings, although with Virgin Media such is not the case. But changing a router is much simpler - I know - I did it in less than 2 minutes.

I changed from a Linksys router to an Apple a few years ago...and yes, I had to call the provider and change several settings. I have installed several routers in my time.....

 

[twerppoet]

If you're provider owns and provisions your router, it's likely that changes they made are what dropped you off the location database. It would be fairly easy for them to make changes you would not notice, but that would convince Apple's location database that your router is a different, unknown, location.

Ignore the preceding. I hadn't read your last post yet.

I know that Apple used Skyhook as a source to create it's initial location database. I don't know if they continue to use Skyhook as a source of updates. A quick Google search didn't turn up any info one way or the other.

If you have a source that says, one way or the other, I'd really like to see it. Mostly just to satisfy my curiosity.

 

[Badlands]

If you're provider owns and provisions your router, it's likely that changes they made are what dropped you off the location database. It would be fairly easy for them to make changes you would not notice, but that would convince Apple's location database that your router is a different, unknown, location.

Ignore the preceding. I hadn't read your last post yet.

I know that Apple used Skyhook as a source to create it's initial location database. I don't know if they continue to use Skyhook as a source of updates. A quick Google search didn't turn up any info one way or the other.

If you have a source that says, one way or the other, I'd really like to see it. Mostly just to satisfy my curiosity.

My provider does not own my router. I think maybe Apple did drop Skyhook....read it somewhere.

 

[Badlands]

My provider does not own my router. I think maybe Apple did drop Skyhook....read it somewhere.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/apple-location/

 

[twerppoet]

My provider does not own my router. . .

I realized that after I posted, and read your (then) last post, then went back to dim and add an bit about ignoring the previous part. Sorry.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/apple-location/

Thank you for the link. I remember this, now that I've read it again. Darn useless thing for a memory to do, don't you think?