How do I find out the Mac Address Firefox submits for Geolocation?

How do I find out the Mac Address Firefox submits for Geolocation?

I moved, but have the same router and cable box. Now when I visit Google Maps it still shows my old location. I went to the SkyhookWireless update page to update my Mac Address with my new location. The process is you put in your Mac address and it shows you the current location, and then you adjust that location and submit it. When I got the Mac Address from the status page on my router Skyhook reported that location as in Pakistan, which isn't even the correct continent (as my old or new address).

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bert [Entry]

"If you are interesting on how the Wireless geolocation in HTML 5 and traditional IP address geolocation technology work, please read this information from the article HTML 5 Geolocation API & IP Geolocation provided by IP2Location.com .
It is very useful for understanding between the MAC address works difference than IP address."

bert [Entry]

"Firefox uses information about the WiFi access points, according to Google blog:

Google Maps asks your web browser for
your location. Typically, your browser
uses information about the Wi-Fi
access points around you to estimate
your location. If no Wi-Fi access
points are in range, or your computer
doesn't have Wi-Fi, it may resort to
using your computer's IP address to
get an approximate location. As you'd
expect, the accuracy of My Location
varies with your location, and in some
cases, Google Maps may not be able to
provide a location at all.

Firefox uses the W3C Geolocation API, which mentions

The Geolocation API defines a
high-level interface to location
information associated only with the
device hosting the implementation,
such as latitude and longitude. The
API itself is agnostic of the
underlying location information
sources. Common sources of location
information include Global Positioning
System (GPS) and location inferred
from network signals such as IP
address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC
addresses, and GSM/CDMA cell IDs, as
well as user input. No guarantee is
given that the API returns the
device's actual location.

What IP range is assigned to the router ?"