Google blocking search

henry51 wrote:

Using a web-based IP lookup https://www.showmyip.com/ my IPv4 address is currently shown as being in East Providence, RI.  Abour a week ago, for several days, it was shown as being in Baltimore, MD.  I am in Vermont.  However, I don't see this creating a problem for me, except for occasionally having to change the prefillled zip code of the closest store location on a retailer's website (e.g. Lowes or Home Depot).  Should I be aware of other issues due to have an IP address 250 miles away?

The only issues I have seen are for services that restrict based on geolocation of your IP. Luckily this is becoming less commonplace, but it is still pervasive. Services offering live local channels via streaming are commonly affected (i.e. Hulu Live, YouTube TV, etc). Otherwise, your IP location doesn't matter tremendously but my might see better performance from certain locations. But even that is likely to be minimal. 

One more note is that some online services also monitor the geolocation information and may trigger a security exception on your account if they see you connecting from multiple locations over a short enough period of time. This would include stuff like your online banking, if used. Other secure connections can be finicky, but typically just require contacting the service provider to inform them.

I wish T-Mobile was more forthcoming with the issues that come from how their network is setup, but being honest and upfront isn't good for new membership initiatives. 

@TMHI-Sucks, “I wish T-Mobile was more forthcoming with the issues that come from how their network is setup, but being honest and upfront isn't good for new membership initiatives.” 

Would you know if this type of IP address assignment is a charateristic of all fixed wireless internet providers (e.g. Verizon and AT&T)  or is it just T-Mobile?

Same thing happening in Jax FL for about the last 2 weeks.  Pretty annoying, I do think some of y'all need to calm down a bit... 

Apeters wrote:

Same thing happening in Jax FL for about the last 2 weeks.  Pretty annoying, I do think some of y'all need to calm down a bit... 

Come back to me when you've been dealing with it 10-20 times a day for nearly 3 weeks 😅. And when you actually have to solve the captchas, they are annoyingly non-specific. Like... "select pictures of motorcycles" but it actually wants you to select moped, motorcycles, and any other motorcycle-like vehicles. But the really infuriating ones are where it wants to select all the squares containing a certain item in the image... do I include the mirrors of the moped as being part of the "motorcycle"? What about the squares containing just the edge of the motorcycle? Because apparently I'm *not* human according to Google. It is an annoying game of semantics and pictionary for a false alarm that is consistently interrupting your workflow.

You could always try a different search engine.  Duck Duck Go, Qwant, or even Bing or one of the many others.

syaoran wrote:

You could always try a different search engine.  Duck Duck Go, Qwant, or even Bing or one of the many others.

But that's the thing... this is just a symptom of a bigger problem. The problem is that the amount of traffic per IP address is high enough to set off Google's anti-DDOS mechanism. As more users sign up, I still believe this will spread.

TMHI-Sucks wrote:

syaoran wrote:

You could always try a different search engine.  Duck Duck Go, Qwant, or even Bing or one of the many others.

But that's the thing... this is just a symptom of a bigger problem. The problem is that the amount of traffic per IP address is high enough to set off Google's anti-DDOS mechanism. As more users sign up, I still believe this will spread.

Is it?  Maybe Google could relax their ridiculous anti-DDOS system because we know the bots are smarter than the average person.  All depends on how you want to look at solving the problem instead of trying to find an excuse to blame T-Mobile.

TMHI-Sucks - If they've been using CGNAT all along why has it just now popped up? The issue has been only happening for the past two weeks for us, fine before then?

… and why hasn't T-Mobile acknowledged the problem… ? Heck their tech support said it was our Mesh Wifi that was causing the problem and that it wasn't compatible… all I could do to not laugh!

Seriously T-Mobile, get with it and fix your network…

ampapa wrote:

TMHI-Sucks - If they've been using CGNAT all along why has it just now popped up? The issue has been only happening for the past two weeks for us, fine before then?

… and why hasn't T-Mobile acknowledged the problem… ? Heck their tech support said it was our Mesh Wifi that was causing the problem and that it wasn't compatible… all I could do to not laugh!

Seriously T-Mobile, get with it and fix your network…

My guess is that it is a combination of more and more users being allocated to each IP, meaning that more traffic is going over each IP. It may be that it is just now tipping over the threshold set by Google for those IPs with higher numbers of users. Essentially, my guess is T-Mobile is adding customers, but not new IP addresses to the pool. Again, this is only a best guess by me as I'm not a T-Mobile employee. 

In terms of acknowledgement, they have acknowledged it is an issue, but have not provided any resolutions. They are also horrible with information dissemination, so their staff often has no clue.

TMHI-Sucks wrote:

Apeters wrote:

Same thing happening in Jax FL for about the last 2 weeks.  Pretty annoying, I do think some of y'all need to calm down a bit... 

Come back to me when you've been dealing with it 10-20 times a day for nearly 3 weeks 😅. And when you actually have to solve the captchas, they are annoyingly non-specific. Like... "select pictures of motorcycles" but it actually wants you to select moped, motorcycles, and any other motorcycle-like vehicles. But the really infuriating ones are where it wants to select all the squares containing a certain item in the image... do I include the mirrors of the moped as being part of the "motorcycle"? What about the squares containing just the edge of the motorcycle? Because apparently I'm *not* human according to Google. It is an annoying game of semantics and pictionary for a false alarm that is consistently interrupting your workflow.

Well, you're right.  That's quite a bit more annoyance than I'm going through.  I get 4 or 5 a day and so far they're only checkmarks.