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Originally Posted by rjljr2
Is there a way to determine ahead of time if your cell situation will work? I would hate to go through the whole process (and risk?) of entering all my personal identification information only to find out that my location cannot be verified. It would be cool if you could enter your cell phone number (and whatever other minimal information required to allow the location request to proceed) and find out if this particular issue is going to effect you.
So, we're starting to try to untangle the cell phone triangulation thing. Ideally we want it to work for everyone, without fail. However, it seems that possibly the reason it's failing is that some towers take a very long time to report the location.
We use a company called "LocAID" for this. If you'd like, try using their web based applet to locate you and note the time. If it's less than about 10 seconds, you *shouldn't* have problems locating. You can find this here:
http://instantlocatedemo.loc-aid.com/
My cell phone (centrally located) locates in about 6 seconds and I've never had a problem logging into our development environments.