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5G Internet Showing Incorrect Location
- Hace 2 años
Location for T-Mobile's 5G service reflects where the signal from the towers connects to ground based servers and infrastructure. This can sometimes be hundreds of miles away and even further. This is how the service works.
I just signed up for the newly launched Amazon AD FREE PRIME VIDEO on 1/30/2024. The fee is $2.99 a month plus tax. Lee County Florida sales tax is 6.5%. I was charged $3.33. $2.99 x 6.5% is 19 cents not 34 so may total should have been $3.18. So I am thinking that this whole T-Mobile Dynamic IP address mayhem is the cause since my IP address is in Miami on Ookla as I write this and was in Boca Raton a half hour before that, both are over 100 miles away from my home address.
I contacted T-Mobile home internet to see if anyone knows anything about the issue and they don't and said it is an Amazon problem. I had called Amazon first and did not have any luck with Amazon customer service. It is really hard for any call center staff to comprehend that T-Mobile has assigned my internet service an IP address located over 100 miles away and it changes randomly from town to town throughout the day.
So my question is, and one that I will be asking the Lee County Commissioners, if I am paying 7.44% tax, when Lee County’s tax is 6.5, is the tax going to Miami Dade or Orange county when my IP address says I am in these counties and how much are the local governments loosing or gaining?
I will bet that if this ends up being a significant amount of loss for counties with smaller revenue that the government will make someone fix this mess.
In reference to "Papigoes" demeaning post in this thread, the reason I now use T-Mobile internet is because I WAS FORCED TO. I had a Centurylink Landline with DSL internet for 38 years in my rural area as there are no cable service providers, and satellite service blacks out too much with all the thunderstorms. Hurricane Ian decided, on September 28th 2022, to destroy Centurylink infrastructure in Lee County Florida and many other areas. It took Centurylink a month to fix the severed cable a ½ mile down the road and when rain, fog and gusting winds continued to make the internet and phone go out they sent 3 different Century link techs out over 6 weeks to fix the problem and the first 2 said someone needed to come out when the lines were wet, and the 3rd came out once again when the lines were dry and wanted to blame it on my electric fence that was not even working at the time because of Ian and the 30 plus trees that came down and smashed a lot of the fence, even though I had the same phone service that worked just fine for 38 years with the electric fence on the whole time. So I got enraged and cancelled Centurylink and 6 months later around June of 2023 when I called the local Centurylink supervisor{a tech had given me her number} to have someone come raise their cable up, because a Lowes delivery flatbed semi truck could not get on my property because the phone cable was still hanging 10 feet off the ground from Ian {and a call to the Fire Department said they need 12 ½ feet of clearance}, the supervisor told me they don't like to fix the old copper cables. Supposedly they are running fiber-optic out here in the Floriduh swamp but no one knows which century we will have service.
I found out through lots of research in the weeks after Ian that a $1300 purchase for a Long Ranger cell antenna with a 20 mile range, and a Cel Fi GO X 32 signal booster would give me 5 bars of 5G in my metal mobile home, instead of the 1 bar of dropping service I got outside and none in the home, and I could do the troubleshooting and fix things myself rather than always have to wait hours, or days, or weeks, or months for the idiots form Centurylink to fix things. One time it took 6 months for them to figure out they needed to replace the buried cable from the road to the home which was over 300 feet long.
Dealing with this ongoing B.S. is a royal pain in the arse.
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