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Help with setting location
I have had a T-Mobile Gateway for almost a year now, and it shows my location as Charlotte, NC, and I am actually in a town four hours away from Charlotte. Is there any way I can access my present location on this device? Especially seeing there are towers practically across the street from me. It is very frustrating when I want to look up something local and all I get is Charlotte information.146Visto0likes4ComentariosRe: Getting the right location on my Gateway
Darko66 wrote: I'm far from an expert on this, but it's a problem with the websites using your IP address to determine your location. This is standard practice, but I believe far fromidealand one that the industry will eventually have to move away from. T-Mobile's IP addresses have proven to not be very accurate for this purpose. I don't know if it's just that they have a limited number of addresses to utilize or if it's some other issue with their use of dynamic addresses. You can probably search the site for "dynamic IP address" or "static IP address"and get some suggestions. There might be a couple of options both of which have an added cost. First might be using a VPN service. Second would be signing up for a business account with T-Mobile and paying for a static address. You can also try rebooting your gateway to see if it assigns you an IP address that's closer to your location, but I imagine you've already done this plenty of times over the last year. Thanks for your comments, but nothing seems to work for getting my right location....totally frustrating!4Visto0likes0ComentariosGetting the right location on my Gateway
I have had T-Mobile internet for almost a year, and while I have no complaints about the service, I've been trying to have the location changed. Whenever I do a Google search, it shows my location in a city 4 hours away and it's totally frustrating. I've been to the T-Mobile store and told they cannot do anything about this, but it is getting to the point where I am considering changing servers. Does anyone have any suggestions so that when I do a search or need something locally, the Gateway doesn't automatically send me to an area far away. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can offe.Solved591Visto0likes6Comentarios