IP Address from Another City
I'm very annoyed! The latest Cox Communications update (May 2021) changed the IP address to Tucson, Arizona. I'm in Phoenix, AZ. Customer support was ZERO help. Reboot, reset, and every other suggest...
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What service / software / web site is displaying your location? IP addresses are not inherently associated with a location so depending on which service / software / web site is displaying your location, the IP address-geolocation database used by service / software/ web site could be old.
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Every browser (Edge, Firefox, Chrome) shows my location is in Tucson. All the website I've visited, some for the first time, all show my computer located in Tucson.
This is issue has nothing to do with 'old'. It started with whatever Cox did earlier this week that took the internet down overnight.
Did you recently install any anti-tracking or ad-blocking software?
These locations are just from where a web-request came or at least a fuzzy geographical location...such as a router within a Cox enclave.
You may have been successfully blocking these tracking attempts at your computer(s) all along but your previous enclave was in Phoenix...so websites assume you were in Phoenix. For some reason your Cox hosts are now in Tucson...so websites assume you're in Tucson.
It's not necessarily your location but the last known or closet location a web-request originated.
If you want websites to know your location, disable any anti-tracking, ad-blocking or cookie-deleting software. I understand Win10 likes to advertise your geographical location, so you could enable this as well.
