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How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information?
zorro6 writes "I thought this might be an interesting question/topic and it would sure help me to get some kind of answer. I recently got internet service from a small, local wireless ISP in my area (south central Colorado, USA). The strange thing is that many, many web sites think I am in Quebec, Canada when I use the service. Evidently some geolocation service thinks my IP address indicates I am in Canada. I have checked the obvious. The WHOIS information for my IP correctly indicates a location of Durango, CO. So the bad info is coming from some more sophisticated geolocation service. My ISP is at a loss as to how to fix this but it is causing me a lot of grief. Many of the ads I get shown on Yahoo! for instance are in French! Certain sites won't sell me goods or services because they don't do business in Canada. So far I know that Yahoo! (or their ad provider), Nvidia, Movielink, etc. all think I am in Canada. I would sure appreciate any help/info on how to get this corrected."
Adult Friend Finder would like to know too
it's silly when they show many hot looking ladies from Morrisville VT (pop. 2000).
I don't know how to fix it, but I know that some ads (before I got adblock plus) thought I lived in a town about 25 miles from here but it was later fixed. I don't know what happened but it was weird seeing "Find sexy ladies in xxxxxx, oh" and it not being my current location.
Use ESRI's ArcGIS Software Suite to fix any problems that start with GEO or GIS.
What's the difference?
Hey! Cheap meds!
Download anything and everything. The MPAA will think your in Canada and look for someone else to sue.
Jebus. Creede> .
As you may have been aware, the US economy has been in a rut. I'm not quite sure how "connected" you folks are out there in them sticks of Colorado.. but Bush decided he needed a new war to boost the economy and get cash flowing again.
The Russians weren't interested.. so we picked a fight with neighboring Canada. As is usual with US military operations lately, we failed.
Your part of the country actually IS Canada now dude. Good luck.. better than living in the States.
Move to Canada.
My IP address is 127.0.0.1 and none of the geo-location companies can find me.
Desole, mais je ne comprend pas. S'il vous plait, ecrit en francais.
Merci,
Jean-Guy de Tabernac
My ISP is at a loss as to how to fix this but it is causing me a lot of grief. Many of the ads I get shown on Yahoo! for instance are in French!
Ah, you're complaining about the utility of ads that you see on Yahoo...? This must be a first.
Three Squirrels
Does this new small ISP have a Pringles can on its roof, pointed North?
Or perhaps you should just move out of Quebec???
Glad to hear you'll help. My IP is 192.168.1.101. If that's not enough my router's IP is 192.168.1.1.
Don't you mean "insensitive Claude"?
Who need's speling and grammar?
Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Wow, you must be living pretty close to me, my router's IP is 192.168.0.1!
Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy an ugly hat [@Dilbert :) ]
You guys are on my subnet... but sorry, I prefer 127.0.0.1, it's uncannily like my stuff.
I must be in the same place as you! My IP is 192.168.1.2 and my router is 192.168.1.100!
[The Universe] has gone offline.
I'm about to DoS your router in 3...2...1...[NO CARRIER]
By "wedding cake" he presumably means "online porn"
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
Give a man a fish and he'll tell you to cook it for him while you're at it.
I'm running Vista. I'm located at 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1, or possibly at FF02::1. Take me down if you can; Vista's pretty secure!
DATABASE WOW WOW
Did he at least try reversing the polarity ?
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Lock the wife and the dog in the boot of the car.
Return one hour later.
Who's happy to see you?
Fuck the RFCs, I modified all the necessary software (incl. router), and run on the 207.46.197.0 subnet, so no one can access microsoft.com from the lan.
Look behind you.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
Sure, it's on an extension cable running from here to Canada.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you lose your monopoly on fish.
Wussies. Soooo scared that they don't tell where they realy are.
I am at http://hackme.houghi.org/
It varies whether http is open or others are open or closed.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Quite frankly, that was the point where I decided I didn't care for UNIX, nor for the attitude that pervades its users.
I know exactly how you feel. I went into a shop once and one assistant was unhelpful and rude. Well, that was it. I left and *never* went into another shop again!