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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:54 am
by Randa france •

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Does anyone know why a growing number of member's IP addresses are located as Bexley, Erith? Not only new members but a lot of our existing members as well who we know don't live anywhere near Erith.

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RE: IP addresses

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:21 pm
by Agger (deleted)

It couod be that they have their "location" turned off on things like google, I was totally mobile but recently I'm both mobile and static, and I know my location used to come up as 3's antenna!

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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:24 pm
by Ribski •

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My IP address comes up as Weston-s-Mare, miles away ! But I do have my 'location' turned off :)

RE: IP addresses

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:12 pm
by rambling robin (deleted)

Nothing to do with location services. The address is handed out on a large scale DHCP system just like the address of your machine within your home network are provided by your home router usually in the 192.168.n.n range - these are all private addresses and so are not unique.

Depending on a number of conditions, when your router dials up your ISP it is given a unique Public address from a bank of addresses provided to the ISP.

That address will last for a predefined period, or until next router re-boot, again depending on your ISP's policy. This is a useful discussion which helps illustrate the point.

https://community.bt.com/t5/Connected-De...ght/true#M23952

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