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Comment by simonblack | Hacker News Reader

There are lots of ways.

What is your system time? If it's not British time you're somewhere else.

What is your actual IP? Where is that IP based?

    dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | sed 's/"//g'

What is the return-time between a ping (or similar) from the BBC to you and back? If it's over a certain number of microseconds, you're 'no longer in Kansas, Toto'.

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>>What is your system time? If it's not British time you're somewhere else

I am not based in UK. Do you think I should be changing my iPhone timeline to UK? It will be a clunky workaround but doable.

>>What is your actual IP? Where is that IP based?

Would you please tell me how do I use the above command to run in my iPhone to find my actual IP? Please note that I keep my VPN on 24 * 7 so that my real IP is never sent out on the web.

>>What is the return-time between a ping (or similar) from the BBC to you and back?

It should be around 18-20msec when I last did a speedtest with the VPN on. How can I check my ping time to the BBC iPlayer site? Is there a website which will help me do this?

> What is the return-time between a ping (or similar) from the BBC to you and back? If it's over a certain number of microseconds, you're 'no longer in Kansas, Toto'.

High latency can be legitimately expected over mobile or satellite connections, it's not a strong signal of a non-local user by itself. UK has real shitty broadband in most places in comparison to 4G/5G, I'd expect a pretty large share of mobile users there.

You could also be using an app like youtube-dl or streamlink to record the stream from a nearby VPS with low latency.

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