Hi Edgar,

You can use the IP Address to get a location.  We use http://freegeoip.net,
then you just need to do some math to get the distance.
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

Here is more info on what we are using it for
http://www.3dicc.com/immersive-terf-global-router-framework/

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum
www.3dicc.com





On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 2:25 AM Edgar De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mar 5, 2017, at 01:46, Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
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> I use the client IP address to calculate the distance from the client
> connecting to each server so that I can select the closest one and reduce
> latency.
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> Hi Ron.
> Could you elaborate more?.
> I
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