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Re: IP Location issue
dlpatneau wrote: I'm into my third month of T-Mobile 5G Home Internet. My real world location is Lebanon, Missouri (Missouri Ozarks Salem Plateau). My IP location switches from Chicago, IL, Denver, CO and Independence, MO. It appears my IP address changes/renews every 12 hours. This wrecks havoc on streaming services and secure login sites, like my bank, Walmart, Lowe's, etcetera. Trusted device keeps changing with the IP address. Didn't bother me untill I attempted to access our Secretary of State's website in regards to the midterm elections. I was denied access for being out of state. Yeppers, not a happy camper anymore! sigh, the problem is IPv4 location data and it's not a problem specific to T-Mobile. It drives me crazy too and it happens with every major national ISP - Verizon, CenturyLink, ATT, etc… The fact is IPv4 is a limited resource and not everyone can have a dedicated IP address assigned to them. That means the ISP's have to pull from a pool and that pool has to remain dynamic because people are dynamic. The real problem is with the website owners that attempt to rely on known flawed IP location database sources. Contact the website and ask them to stop using IP addresses for location information.14Visto3likes0ComentariosRe: IP Location issue
bayhett wrote: We have the Nokia 5G21 Gateway, but Iheard from a human T-Mobile employee at one of their retail storesthat 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 thesame 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 KCMO 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 :(3Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: IP Location issue
pb2727 wrote: The reasons phones are not having the same issues is GPS built in. I wish somehow the gateway itself would have a way to provide the location via the SIM. Enabling GPS on your home ISP and providing that to any website or web service that requested it would be dangerous. Imagine if this website just posted your physical location for anyone to see. I strongly oppose this idea. Yes, phones do have the same issue when they rely on IP based location. So, people that do not want to share GPS information still have this same IP location problem. As the poster above pointed out, the complaints really need to be placed on the web site and TV service providers.2Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Is anyone else having problems with a changing IP address?
MitchNC wrote: I finally suffered through an hour-long call with T-Mobile. They said there is no fix. Our T-Mobile Home Internet routers jump back and forth between towers like a phone. There will never be a fix, she said. I asked why the problem just started for me a month ago. She said the IP situation has always been like this but websites recently started cracking down due to security concerns. As you know, their answer is not accurate. I've had this service for almost 2yrs now and this problem only recently started. I know prior to this that it held the IP for several days, even months, so long as you didn't reboot. I can deal with the IP location always being states away, that's just an annoying. This however, makes the service unusable for the work I must do from home as I can't complete authentications without the IP changing in the middle. This is not normal behavior and sites see this as a possible security event (think man in the middle attack). The support I talked to also tried to pass this off as normal. They seem to now have a shared response to provide us. They did let on something about "bands" and tower saturation being involved. My guess is another poster is on to something that the change to 5G towers and infrastructure, along with more people, is contributing to T-mobile now having an architecture that is unable to manage the demand. Btw, their recommendation for a google mesh router will not fix this problem unless that router is configured to utilize a VPN service that can stabilize your public side IP address. You have to pay extra for that and adding a VPNoverlay network on top can add additional latency, causing other problems. This is a horrible development in an otherwise good service - especially for those of us in rural areas with no options.2Visto1like0Comentarios