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IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

daiwatt46664 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:33:38 GMT

When browsing, sites think I am in Gateshead, not mid-Wales. Searching the web suggests that this postcode location is assigned to my IP by PlusNet. How do I correct this or get this corrected?

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

jab1 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:48:39 GMT

@daiwatt46664 Do not worry where they 'think' you are - unless it is outside the UK. Geolocation is a very imprecise art - Google maps for instance currently thinks I'm in Wiltshire, which is quite a distance from Sheffield.

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

PhilipHeyes — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:52:29 GMT

Post codes are not assigned to a Public IP by the ISP.

Many mobile devices have Apple Relay enabled, this like any VPN or Proxy will give misleading location results.

What do you see with : https://whatismyipaddress.com/
before considering the location, verify the Public IP displayed matches the Public IP shown in your Hub / Router.

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

Champnet — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:20:27 GMT

@PhilipHeyes I've tried your link and It reckons my location is over 200 Miles north of where I live.....

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

jab1 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:28:00 GMT

As I said IP location is very 'approximate' my laptop says I'm in Wiltshire (Tewksbury area), although both iPad and iPhone correctly have me in SW Sheffield.

@PhilipHeyes link puts me in Manchester, where my ISP's northern data centre is.

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

daiwatt46664 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:29:00 GMT

Thanks for all the replies.

https://whatismyipaddress.com/ --> London

Sites think I'm at CA26 3SD (Gateshead) - where is this coming from if not ISP?

I'm in Hay-on-Wye (Powys)

Have tried configuring location setting and addresses within Google ; have cleared caches.

so not sure how to correct this 'misalignment'

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

jab1 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:34:08 GMT

@daiwatt46664 See previous comments - it depends which IP location databases the sites use, and even those databases are quite often wrong.

You, nor anyone else, can correct this anomaly.

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

AyToZed — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:47:13 GMT

What does https://nordvpn.com/ip-lookup/ say about your location?

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

jab1 — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:12:30 GMT

Probably something different. Puts me in Oxfordshire, which is a new one, and still wrong.

Re: IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town

Champnet — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:11:13 GMT

@AyToZed I've tried your link and It reckons my location is over 200 Miles south of where I live.....