Offline IP-Locate

Every computer connected to some kind of network, even a local one is fitted with a unique IP address so it can be identified and protected. These addresses can be tracked to host countries by particular elements, and you don’t really need an active Internet connection to figure out, but simply an application like Offline IP-Locate.

Although you’re taken through a setup process to deploy the content of the application, you don’t necessarily need to install it on your computer, and it’s possible to store it on a thumb drive to be used on other computers. It doesn’t modify registry entries during runtime, so you can rest assured that the health status of the target PC remains intact.

As the name points out, an active Internet connection has absolutely no saying in the actual process of telling the originating country of a target IP address. This is because components of an IP address are well-established, and an organized database is used to help you identify the source of a target IP.

The overall process is pretty intuitive, and requires incredibly little effort on your behalf. In other words, you simply need to punch in the numbers of the target IP, and hit the locate button. The host country is shown in a dedicated field. On the bright side of things, the history of addresses is remembered in a drop-down menu for later use.

Unfortunately, the application comes with a pretty straightforward set of features. You need to be sure that the target address is correct, and you can’t target computers in a network, since it only uses offline info to return results. It would have been useful to see a component to identify countries by domains, even if it requires an active connection to the information superhighway.

All things considered, we can state that Offline IP-Locate comes with good intentions, but the result is of little to no use without an active Internet connection to actually be able to use any resources to get more info. Even if connected to the Internet, there are no advantages to come from it.