topic Re: Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US? in Broadband

Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US?

pacificoceanblu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:56:09 GMT

I'm having issues on Linux in that the OS thinks the PlusNet IP I'm currently connect to is based the US.

Visiting https://api.ip2location.io/ indicates...

ip	"146.198.185.105"
country_code	"US"
country_name	"United States of America"
region_name	"California"
city_name	"El Segundo"
latitude	33.9192
longitude	-118.41658
zip_code	"90245"
time_zone	"-08:00"
asn	"6871"
as	"British Telecommunications Plc"
is_proxy	false
message	"Limit to 1,000 queries per day. Sign up for a Free plan at https://www.ip2location.io to get 50K queries per month."

Re: Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US?

Baldrick1 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:03:59 GMT

@pacificoceanblu

It's an IP address that's been transferred from the USA to the UK. The IP2Location database hasn't been updated. Every other database I have checked is correct.

If this is causing you problems then I suggest that you drop your connection for a couple of hours, hopefully on reconnecting you will (it's far from guaranteed) pick up a different address.

Re: Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US?

MisterW — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:04:03 GMT

The IP address is not US based, its just that one ( or more ) of the geolocation databases is wrong.

Re: Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US?

pacificoceanblu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:10:18 GMT

I can indeed work around it and forcing a change does solve it.

The issue was that when the system looks for updates, it chooses servers close to that location for any potential downloads.

Thanks for the swift response

Re: Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US?

Dan_the_Van — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:21:57 GMT

I use mint linux; are you referring to >Update manager >Software sources ?

Even though I have a UK based IP address the primary source is always somewhere in the US, I've always corrected it to the UK

Re: Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US?

pacificoceanblu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:46:45 GMT

I'm using Mint as well. I just happened to do a refresh of my current main/bases mirrors yesterday and noticed the only ones I could choose were based in USA, Canada, Mexico etc, nothing elsewhere. Others in the Mint forums also reported it too. I kept them on the UK mirrors I was already using as they clearly worked fine.