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IP Location issue
So apparently I cannot connect to sites that need to verify your location because my new tmobile internet service shows me as being located in a State that is different from my actual location. Been...
bayhett wrote:
We have the Nokia 5G21 Gateway, but I heard from a human T-Mobile employee at one of their retail stores that there is a “new” fancier 5G gateway available now - does anyone have this new hardware, but continue to have geolocation problems?
A new gateway won’t help since any gateway or cellphone will connect to the same DHCP service that provides the dynamic IP addresses and those addresses have to come from a pool - keep in mind IP v4 has limited IPs available for the world to use so that’s why they are dynamic and not permanently assigned to you.
I live near KC MO and I too get bopped around from a Denver IP and a Memphis IP - I've never got a location with 400mi!. This is not a problem unique to T-mobile. Verizon generally has me out of Chicago - just looked in the logs and my Verizon cell card in my laptop had me in Lakewood, CO, Gardner, KS, Berryton, KS, Scranton, KS, and Indianapolis, IN in just the last 24hrs!. I see others on ATT in my logs bopping around Chicago and Kansas City and Houston. My Centurylink DSL line has me out of the other side of the state. Basically, using IP addresses for geo-location has never been a good idea and website and content providers should stop relying on it as being accurate.
Knowing what I know...I still came here hoping to find a solution because I too am frustrated by this. Here's what one of the GEO IP location database services has to say about this topic. Keep in mind the websites you are visiting have to use one of these database services to get the location information. They don't get it directly from your ISP (e.g. t-mobile, ATT, Verizon, etc)
“With those limitations in mind, we estimate that our GeoIP2 products can identify users at the country level with 99.8% accuracy. For IPs located within the U.S., we estimate around an 80% accuracy at the state/region level, and a 66% accuracy for cities (within a 50km radius of that city).”
Geolocation Accuracy – MaxMind
At least I get located in the right country every time :(
