The publicly available information about IP addresses only resolves down to the ISP that assigned it. It’s spooky to visit a site for the first time and up pop those ads for your city.Īs I’ve discussed in many other articles, it’s nearly impossible to determine the specific location of a computer based only on its IP address. The detection which we show on the website cannot be changed by us MaxMind provide a great service and are constantly updating their GeoIP database, so who knows - perhaps in the future they will more accurately report your location.… it’s nearly impossible to determine the specific location of a computer based on only its IP address. The weather website (or whatever) should have some way of letting you selecting your real location. As discussed already, it's just a best attempt at locating you. If you go on to other websites (perhaps a Weather prediction website) and it is giving you the weather for a different location than where you really are, they are probably experiencing the same kind of issue. This is probably because all the NBN traffic is sent to the more centralised location before actually hitting the public internet - thus the traffic appears to be coming from closer to the city. However when we switched our internet to Australia's National BroadBand Network, the geo detection now reports that we are basically coming from the middle of the City, absolutely no where near where we actually are. When we were with our old ISP, the geographic detection for our office IP was remarkably accurate - only one suburb off (it reported the suburb that contained the ADSL2 exchange). This is an infrastructural issue and nothing can be done about it. As such, regardless of where you are actually located, your internet traffic will appear to be coming from the location of the ISP's exit point. One factor to consider is your ISP - some ISPs route all their traffic to a fairly central location before it reaches the public internet. It can be quite hard to determine exactly where the traffic is coming from, based on IP Address. So if the site is showing that you seem to be coming from a completely different suburb or state, just know that this is what their database thinks. The detection shown on is contained to the site and has absolutely no bearing on any other website or system.
Whatever the homepage of says your location appears to be (remember that it also says "Approximate" underneath!), please understand that this is just where their database thinks you are coming from. They make a best attempt to correlate your computer's IP Address with a physical location (a Suburb, City, or perhaps State, in a Country).ĭepending on a number of factors, the results from their database may be very accurate or quite wrong. The location detection shown on is based on a service called GeoIP from a company called MaxMind.
Why is the location detection (based on my IP address) wrong?
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