IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town
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IP address is assigned a Postcode in wrong town
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@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.
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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.
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@PhilipHeyes I've tried your link and It reckons my location is over 200 Miles north of where I live.....
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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.
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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'
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@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.
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What does https://nordvpn.com/ip-lookup/ say about your location?
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Probably something different. Puts me in Oxfordshire, which is a new one, and still wrong.
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@AyToZed I've tried your link and It reckons my location is over 200 Miles south of where I live.....
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