Its really depends. A visual traceroute can be very helpful or incredibly misleading. You may get the correct town, or you may not. It depends heavily on the accuracy of the information publicly available by the ISP, and how they have/are managing their IP addresses. The best bet is to determine the ISP and make contact with them regarding a theft issue - if its a case of theft.
The ISP isn't going to just give you location information. You will require local law enforcement involvement. Unless some sort of wireless triangulation app is able to kick-off and report back the data, you aren't going to get anything that is specific or trustable. Otherwise, you can take the IP and try to cross-reference it with other logs/posts/whatever online, and see if you can find some correlation. I have managed to pull this off a few times in order to prompt a deeper investigation by law enforcement. But this depends highly on the online activities of the end-user. -- ME2 On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gene Giannamore < [email protected]> wrote: > More of a proof of concept. Can it be done, kinda thing. From my research > seems fairly involved and has a low chance of success. I could be wrong > though. Check the logs, find the remote ISP, contact them and somehow get > the location info, see if the police there aren’t busy, hope the location is > not random. > > > > Gene Giannamore > > Abide International Inc. > > Technical Support > > 561 1st Street West > > Sonoma,Ca.95476 > > (707) 935-1577 Office > > (707) 935-9387 Fax > > (707) 766-4185 Cell > > [email protected] > > www.abideinternational.com > > > > > > *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:42 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Tracking stolen laptop via IP address (internet) > > > > Somewhat. But you will likely need to cooperation from the ISP and local > law enforcement on the other-end. > > > > Is proper theft-tracking software involved, or do you only have rudimentary > IP address information? > > -- > ME2 > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Gene Giannamore < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Is it possible to track/find a laptop via it’s IP address across the > internet? > > > > > > Gene Giannamore > > Abide International Inc. > > Technical Support > > 561 1st Street West > > Sonoma,Ca.95476 > > (707) 935-1577 Office > > (707) 935-9387 Fax > > (707) 766-4185 Cell > > [email protected] > > www.abideinternational.com > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
