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How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information?

Posted by samzenpus on from the 123-fake-street dept.

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."

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  1. personal sites by hansoloaf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Adult Friend Finder would like to know too
    it's silly when they show many hot looking ladies from Morrisville VT (pop. 2000).

  2. Start Downloading! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Download anything and everything. The MPAA will think your in Canada and look for someone else to sue.

  3. CO IS CANADA by rcarsey · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:happened to me by bladesjester · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

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  5. Quoi? by pipingguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Desole, mais je ne comprend pas. S'il vous plait, ecrit en francais.

    Merci,

    Jean-Guy de Tabernac

    1. Re:Quoi? by UnixUnix · · Score: 5, Funny

      "ecrivez en francais", you insensitive Claude :))

  6. Move? by BizzyM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or perhaps you should just move out of Quebec???

  7. Re:possibly stating the obvious by thetartanavenger · · Score: 5, Funny

    And frankly, I wouldn't want to make it immediately obvious what my IP address was to such a large audience. There's inevitably going to be some jackass that sends a botnet at it. I was about to correct you for thinking there would only be the one jackass, when I realised that slashdot is it's own human botnet.. So by posting his own address, he'd be the jackass unleashing the botnet upon himself..
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  8. Re:possibly stating the obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm about to DoS your router in 3...2...1...[NO CARRIER]

  9. Re:possibly stating the obvious by bloodninja · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, you must be living pretty close to me, my router's IP is 192.168.0.1! Amazing! That's the IP address of my luggage!
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  10. Re:possibly stating the obvious by arachnoprobe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.