Is Plusnet IP address 146.198.185.105 based the US?

[#1]

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."

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@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.

[#3]

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

[#4]

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

[#5]

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

[#6]

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.