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Old 04-02-2012, 09:44 AM   #6
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Default Re: Strange Wireless Hotspot Behaviour

Exactly, and using reverse DNS will also help them find the best route, but wireless devices use NAT, so the server is picking up the public IP of the router that provided the NAT address to your device, which could be somewhere way different from where you are.
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