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So connect with WiFi over a VPN to a country they provide updates to?
It might even work by just changing your DNS servers http://whatismyipaddress.com/s...

I just find it hard to believe they've gone out of their way and expended time and effort (read: spent money) to block updates for specific regions for absolutely no reason.

Well, this explains why I had trouble searching.

W3C is listed as a seperate provider in tables, here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/l... (note, they chopped the direct link in my original post), and here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/g...

Note, in the first link, everything except W3C is listed as correct, which is even more baffling for me, because somewhere the wrong information is being received, and it happened everywhere in the shop at once, across platforms.

Well, this explains why I had trouble searching.

W3C is listed as a seperate provider in tables, here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/l... (note, they chopped the direct link in my original post), and here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/g...

Note, in the first link, everything except W3C is listed as correct, which is even more baffling for me, because somewhere the wrong information is being received, and it happened everywhere in the shop at once, across platforms.

Yeah, I was thinking this guy's got it all backwards. If MaxMind et al are already showing the right position, then the problem is the location returned by the W3C API call in his unspecified browser which depends on which location service his browser uses (possibly not the default), and whether his device is GPS-equipped.

In the absence of GPS, Firefox defaults to using Google Location Service (according to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... ), which is not one of the 4 "providers" listed at http://whatismyipaddress.com/ and could easily be the one database that's wrong, causing his confusion. I expect Chrome to do the same. IE may use a Microsoft-provided IP database, again separate from the four above -- I couldn't find confirmation of this.

For servers that don't rely on W3C javascript calls to get your location, it all entirely depends on which service they subscribe to, which you may not be able to find out. Short of submitting corrections to "all of them", you're just out of luck.

CGNAT is NAT for your external IP address. Your router will assign private network IP addresses so your devices on your internal network, but the external interface on your router will have a publically addressable IP address assigned by the pool allocated to your ISP. Depending on their size, they may have a pool of tens of thousands or millions of addresses to assign, but you definitely got one even if you didn't know it.

Head on over to http://whatismyipaddress.com/ to find out.

LOL...Unless you had an ISDN line or better "back in the day" the internet in general was crappy and slow let alone a FPS. Gamespy 3D was a godsend because it would test the ping times for you and tell you how bad the server you WANTED to hop on was vs. another. I'm not saying it was perfect but it was fantastic for what it did.

Every time I log into Gmail, it passes thru google.com.sa for authentication i.e. my password and authentication info are stored on a server with a local address!

The TLD of course doesn't tell you where the server actually is. This is what this domain resolves to:

google.com.sa has address 74.125.39.103
google.com.sa has address 74.125.39.104
google.com.sa has address 74.125.39.105
google.com.sa has address 74.125.39.106
google.com.sa has address 74.125.39.147
google.com.sa has address 74.125.39.99
google.com.sa mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9b2.psmtp.com.
google.com.sa mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9a1.psmtp.com.
google.com.sa mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9a2.psmtp.com.
google.com.sa mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9b1.psmtp.com.

Now looking up the first address reveals:

Geolocation Information
Country: United States
State/Region: California
City: Beverly Hills

So much about that server with local address.

I haven't checked the others, but with the IPs so close to each other I'm pretty sure they are in the same data center.

After a google search (oh the irony) I went to this site (while using Wifi) http://whatismyipaddress.com/ and guess what, google (or any other visited website) doesn't need to get lucky with Wifi data to know what city I am in, when I am using my WiFi connection.

to a specific computer (MAC address) and even to a specific house number.

not really, mostly wifi is used by "laptops" If they have a cookie already, and a plenty of unique information on your computer, knowing a rough estimation of where your laptop was in a 5 minute window, isn't vary valuable (IMHO). Then again google as a company is making millions fractions of a penny at a time from us, so who knows maybe my data may be worth $.0001 more valuable knowing a probability of my location 2* better.
All of this value and more is likely coming to google soon, or already without the scraped data. Sounds like google is going to be using wifi mac addresses as locations anyway. So they will be constantly refining a map of all public facing IP addresses, and by extension computers using them, that is more reliable anyway.

Well here is a short turorial when you need to transfer data from one box to another legally. It can also be used as you see fit; 1. A recent copy of uTorrent. 2. Your external IP address. You can use http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/ to find this. 3. Your listen port in uTorrent. You can find this in uTorrent's Options > Preferences > Connection > Port used for incoming connections. 4. You must be clever/connectable! This won't work if you don't have port forwarding correctly configured. Here's what you need to do. Open up uTorrent and go Options > Preferences > Advanced. Scroll down to find bt.enable_tracker and set it to True. Restart uTorrent for this to take effect. Now, create a new torrent. As usual, browse to find the file or folder you wish to share. For the tracker url, use the following information: http://your_ip_addressyour_listen_port/announce So, for example, if your IP address is 123.123.123.123 and your listen port is 54321 then you would put this as your tracker url: http://123.123.123.123:54321/announce Remember to tick 'Start Seeding'. Tick 'Private Torrent' to disable DHT and Peer Exchange for this torrent if you want to. Now press 'Create and save as..' and save the .torrent file somewhere. uTorrent should now connect (to itself) and the tracker status should be 'working'. You'll note it has a 10 minute announce interval. All you need then is the .torrent file to start transfering content to another machine. I have found this helpful in the past.

Or, if you have popups blocked, here's one of the easiest ways:

http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/

You can even tell your grandmother to type what is my ip address into her browser window (omitting the spaces) and it will resolve for her. Of course, there are tons of other ones out there. http://www.dnsstuff.com/ will tell you as well, with only a few Google ads.

Go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/
and find out.

Of course IP addresses are rather pointless without a date and time. I switched from a 208.*.*.* to a 66.*.*.* address just this morning.

Get a webserver to tell you what it thinks is your IP, try www.whatismyipaddress.com
if it sees your ip as something different from your real external IP then your ISP is employing some sort of proxy.

You can find your ip by running WINIPCFG on win95/98/Me or ipconfig in /NT/2k/XP or ifconfig on unix/linux

If you want to find the IP address of a transparent proxy, simply point your web browser at a web page that will print out "your" IP address when you request a web page. Instead of printing the IP of your firewall or your host, it will print the transparent proxy's IP address.

For example:

• http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/
• http://www.whatismyip.com/
• Google Search for "my ip address"

After that, you may be able to do some more investigation into what kind of host it is and/or what kind of software it is running. (This is left as an excercise for the crac...err, reader.)