Random location detection, different between devices
I use the AA route planner and live traffic on the WWW, viewing in FF browser. On my phone, which obviously uses location permission and may fall back on GPS, WiFi or phone network info to figure out where it is the location detected is spot on. I also use a Samsung Android tablet with FF to visit the same website, selecting "use desktop site" in order to have the same look and feel. This device may be getting a fix from GPS although unlikely inside the house or from the WiFi network. It also gets a fairly good fix which improves after a page refresh or two. So far so good.
When I visit the same website from a Laptop running Linux Mint the location must be picked up from a purely WiFi source and is often wildly in error. This week, it thinks I am at Withernsea, on the spurn Peninsular. Most odd, I am about 50 miles away in Pickering, North Yorks.
I saw the same scale of error last week when in Reading, it thought I was near to Witney, Oxford, again about 40 miles away. It is most frustrating as it zooms the map to the wrong location, close up, and it takes a load of zoom out and pan/scroll actions to get to where I am. Every time I refresh the page to get updated traffic it jumps to the false location.
What is going wrong on the Laptop?
Ta.