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Originally Posted by JayAy
My IP address changed yesterday for the first time since December 2015, but along with the address changed I've also apparently moved form from Hertfordshire to Lancashire. If I use speedtest.net it's suggesting the closest VM speed test server to me is Manchester, rather than Luton as previously. If I do a geolocate I'm hitting the internet in Preston rather than St Albans, as previously. Anyone know what's going on?
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Your new IP address was probably once allocated to someone in Lancahsire. IP's are not geographic in the slightest, they can move around all the time and any kind of Location service based off of IP addresses is going to get it wildly wrong if it's information isn't up to date - and said information isn't always easy to come by because ISP's don't make a habit of publicly posting their internal network configurations.