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Cannot get correct location from tower
I had a Sagemcom gateway and it reported my location correctly. Because that gateway had issues T-Mobile replaced with an Arcadyan. That gave me a location of Detroit, MI. Also the Arcadyan was slowe...
drnewcomb wrote:Your ISP does not "report your location". Rather it is inferred from your IP address. Because of the multiple NATs in T-Mobile's wireless ISP system, the inferred location is often incorrect. T-Mobile has done nothing wrong. The problem comes from websites that improperly infer location from the IP address.
I did some research on this. I did not imply T-Mobile did anything wrong. There are databases that connect ranges or blocks of IP addresses to a physical location. Sometimes the information they have is incorrect. T-Mobile is looking into the issue for me to see how they can resolve it. The website I gave provides contact information for the databases so requests can be sent to have the information changed.
