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Raymond_Torres's avatar
Raymond_Torres
Network Novice
Hace 8 meses

Coverage from NC but i live in VA

Hi, Hay i live in Virginia Beach, VA but i am getting block from certain sites because T mobile has me living in NC. Can you help gettin me back to VA?

  • What I think you are complaining about is the Internet geolocation, right? Well the problem isn't with T-Mobile, rather it's with the websites that assume that your physical location is the same as your IP address' registered location. This is an incorrect and frankly, lousy, assumption to make. There is no requirement in the Internet specs that physical and registered location have any relationship. The way that T-Mobile reuses IP addresses using multiple NATs it's almost impossible for there to be any correlation. 

  • What I think you are complaining about is the Internet geolocation, right? Well the problem isn't with T-Mobile, rather it's with the websites that assume that your physical location is the same as your IP address' registered location. This is an incorrect and frankly, lousy, assumption to make. There is no requirement in the Internet specs that physical and registered location have any relationship. The way that T-Mobile reuses IP addresses using multiple NATs it's almost impossible for there to be any correlation. 

  • syaoran's avatar
    syaoran
    Transmission Titan

    As a Hampton, VA resident.  This is not uncommon.