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Why am I shown in the wrong location?
I've spoken with T-mobile support several times about this issue and the last tec support guy said it's due to the location of their towers but noone else around here is having the issue. My locatio...
formercanuck wrote:Its in part due to geo-tagging of the IP address. With Spectrum (TWC), IPs are almost 'static' and typically geo-tagged to your residence, and are using standard IP addresses - non RFC 1918 (10.x.y.z, 192.168.x.y style).
T-Mobile effectively uses a NAT IP. As a result, your 'real' ip is at a POP / aggregator.
Run 'ifconfig.me' and then do a geo location lookup. It'll most likely be at an urban location where T-Mobile aggregates it NAT IP address to public.
So how does one get t mobile to fix this!? I constantly get notifications asking me if it's "really me"! Have to verify my location and identity multiple times. I'm glad there's that but I'm not in Minneapolis MN. When I search for example a restaurant and a location with driving directions it has me starting in MN- and everything I search is the same.
