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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).
Download anything and everything. The MPAA will think your in Canada and look for someone else to sue.
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.
Maybe it was trying to tell you that the closest sexy ladies were 25 miles away :P
(I'm trying really hard to not make Ohio jokes since I live here lol)
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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
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.
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!
I'm about to DoS your router in 3...2...1...[NO CARRIER]
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
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.
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.
No one assumes that those are EXACT, so you're safe.
Honest, Mike. We couldn't find you if we tried.
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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you lose your monopoly on fish.