Ip Address Location Wrong

Zinic · 20 Nov 2009

If you look below, you will see my "location", but really I live in Oregon (This would be nice speeds if I really were 1700 miles away).

So whats wrong? Windows 7's fault, or Speedtest.net's fault.

BTW How do I enable my signature?

Edit: I just looked up in another site, and it had my location wrong.

richc46 · 20 Nov 2009

Zinic said:

If you look at my signature, you will see my "location", but really I live in Oregon (This would be nice speeds if I really tested 1700 miles away).

So whats wrong? Windows 7's fault, or Speedtest.net's fault.

Edit: Hold on, Sig not showing.

They test from the nearest location. Im in CT, I'm tested NJ.

Qdos · 20 Nov 2009

I'd suspect your ISP for pushing you through a node that distance from your home, as that's sometimes perfectly normal - or speedtest.net may have linked to an unreliable lookup service...

Zinic · 20 Nov 2009

I got the pic up now.

Frostmourne · 20 Nov 2009

It would depend on your ISP.

AntiSilence · 20 Nov 2009

Does your ISP use a proxy?

Zinic · 20 Nov 2009

AntiSilence said:

Does your ISP use a proxy?

No. Don't think so. So this is my ISP's fault?

The location was right when I had Vista. Should I call my ISP?

AntiSilence · 20 Nov 2009

I'd give your ISP a call on the off-chance that they can sort it. I can't think of anything that would cause the location to be incorrect in Win7 from Vista as your IP is assigned by your ISP and not Windows.

Zinic · 20 Nov 2009

Umm I will try.

mckillwashere · 21 Nov 2009

The server location is the location of the server you are testing too. not were you are testing from.

See

All different servers all done within minutes