On Jun 8, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Randall Gellens
<rg+ietf(_at_)randy(_dot_)pensive(_dot_)org> wrote:
I personally find the effects more an amusing artifact that an actual
hindrance, but that's just me.
It made it a pain to schedule an IoTdir dinner in Chicago—I kept getting
redirected to sites with similar names in Seoul. I am embarrassed at how long
it took me to realize that I could just use my phone's tethering capability to
solve the problem.
That said, the artifact you are talking about actually happened to me in
Chicago, because I was "in Seoul" as far as (some) geolocation services were
concerned. The way to prevent this behavior when in a foreign country is to
use a VPN; this should work just fine from the IETF network, if not from the
hotel network.
Of course, even better would be if geolocation information could be overridden
from the browser; I'm not aware of such a possibility that actually generally
works, however.