Wrong IP location

Edward78 · 14 Sep 2017 at 04:25

I had a alert saying that, the ip matches mine (checked @ http://whatismyipaddress.com/), but the city was not the same on the alert... I know it was me, but why was the location not the same?

BaroUK2 · 14 Sep 2017 at 04:39

The location of the IP will change constantly, because most isps use a dynamic ip for their customers from a pool of ip address and they will not update geolocation data for that ip as much so you will see different city for your ip.

Edward78 · 14 Sep 2017 at 05:16

BaroUK2 said:
The location of the IP will change constantly, because most isps use a dynamic ip for their customers from a pool of ip address and they will not update geolocation data for that ip as much so you will see different city for your ip.

Cool, thought it was ok... Just wanted to be sure...

bilko100 · 14 Sep 2017 at 13:44

I live in Leicestershire but over the last 2 days when i look up my ip location it is 140 miles away in Gateshead. Virgin media helpline were hopeless and suggested it was my netgear router that was to blame. Could it just be my local server is having problems and virgin are routing me out of area?

ChrisD. · 14 Sep 2017 at 14:04

The IP doesn't always correlate to the geographical location due to the way that ISP's dish out WAN addresses.

Glanza · 14 Sep 2017 at 14:22

Your IP location without using wireless to pin point you (Google do this) will very rarely be in the same area, we have customers in Leeds were their IP shows them in London due to the ISP.

ANDARIAL · 14 Sep 2017 at 14:34

bilko100 said:
I live in Leicestershire but over the last 2 days when i look up my ip location it is 140 miles away in Gateshead. Virgin media helpline were hopeless and suggested it was my netgear router that was to blame. Could it just be my local server is having problems and virgin are routing me out of area?

Thats a good thing surely?

PiKe · 14 Sep 2017 at 15:02

Is it actually having a detrimental effect? If not, why does it matter?

Steveocee · 14 Sep 2017 at 15:18

The only way it will impact you is if you search for "local weather".

Sp00n · 14 Sep 2017 at 15:38

Take it up with maxmind who are probably serving the geo-location data for whatever app you're looking at.

Orcvader · 14 Sep 2017 at 16:57

Any reason why you want your current IP to be linked to your actual current location? Unless you have static IP there's no point in this, and people will easily find where you live...

bilko100 · 15 Sep 2017 at 10:36

Thanks for the reassurance I guess the only impact is as Steveocee said weather searches give me wrong info.

ic1male · 15 Sep 2017 at 12:39

It changes for me depending on which website is doing the asking. Google gets it spot on, Apple thinks I'm in Harlow, Essex and Steam thinks I'm in London.

Glanza · 15 Sep 2017 at 13:21

ic1male said:
It changes for me depending on which website is doing the asking. Google gets it spot on, Apple thinks I'm in Harlow, Essex and Steam thinks I'm in London.

Do you connect via wifi? Google is crafty and works out where you are from surrounding wireless network names when they did the streetview pictures.

ChrisD. · 15 Sep 2017 at 14:01

Glanza said:
Google is crafty and works out where you are from surrounding wireless network names when they did the streetview pictures.

Really?

Glanza · 15 Sep 2017 at 14:05

ChrisD. said:
Really?

Old post but it gives you a overview:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/google-know-where-wifi-router/

ChrisD. · 15 Sep 2017 at 14:08

Cheers. Sneaky buggers.

Orcvader · 15 Sep 2017 at 14:41

Glanza said:
Do you connect via wifi? Google is crafty and works out where you are from surrounding wireless network names when they did the streetview pictures.

It has my location and I don't use wifi, I just assumed it's because my phone/watch is with me and tracks me via that and I'm signed into the same Google account on the desktop browser.

APM · 17 Sep 2017 at 13:32

Big Brother is Googling you!

Caged · 17 Sep 2017 at 17:50

IP geolocation generally sorts itself out after a few people with phones that have GPS open the maps apps on the Wi-Fi.