[linuxthefish]

Depends where it's going to, you can normally see a rough route with tracert and guess the server location through the hostname. Don't rely on geoip.

Manchester > Canada.

Tracing route to gateway2.thestar.ca [192.206.151.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 2 ms 2 ms private
2 11 ms 6 ms 6 ms private
3 13 ms 16 ms 19 ms private
4 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms private
5 176 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-9-1-0.core-dc1.man4.uk.m247.com [77.243.176.73]
6 22 ms 18 ms 20 ms te-1-5-3346.bb1.ams1.nl.m247.com [77.243.185.178]
7 25 ms 19 ms 25 ms ams-sara-cor-1.peer1.net [195.69.145.209]
8 26 ms 28 ms 25 ms 10ge.xe-1-0-0.frk-eqx-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.88.198]
9 41 ms 34 ms 33 ms 10ge.xe-1-1-0.ldn-eqx-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.88.197]
10 35 ms 33 ms 34 ms xe-4-4.r00.londen03.uk.ce.gin.ntt.net [83.231.181.206]
11 36 ms 34 ms 32 ms 10ge.xe-4-0-0.ldn-teleh-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.115.203]
12 122 ms 162 ms 153 ms 10ge.xe-1-1-0.nyc-telx-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.115.117]
13 128 ms 125 ms 127 ms 10ge.xe-11-0-0.tor-fr709-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.114.193]
14 128 ms 132 ms 126 ms 10ge.xe-5-0-0.tor-fr709-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.113.133]
15 144 ms 132 ms 175 ms 10ge.xe-1-1-0.tor-1yg-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.113.78]
16 64.34.137.58 reports: Destination net unreachable.