New IP Address and Location

[TheWazzer]

Hope someone can help me, its probably just trivial but I have been doing speed tests on speedtest.net for the last year or so and just noticed over the last week that my IP address has changed.

Nothing to worry about there I thought but then when I looked up the geographic location of this new IP address it was somewhere in Ellsmere Port. My old one when I type that in, the the location was spot on, in my street (South Staffs).

When I asked Virgin a few months ago about being upgraded from 4mb to 10mb they said I was in the Cambridge area and that would be done soon, I live about 90 miles from Cambridge.

Originally Posted by TheWazzer

Hope someone can help me, its probably just trivial but I have been doing speed tests on speedtest.net for the last year or so and just noticed over the last week that my IP address has changed.

Nothing to worry about there I thought but then when I looked up the geographic location of this new IP address it was somewhere in Ellsmere Port. My old one when I type that in, the the location was spot on, in my street (South Staffs).

When I asked Virgin a few months ago about being upgraded from 4mb to 10mb they said I was in the Cambridge area and that would be done soon, I live about 90 miles from Cambridge.

You are lucky some people get a new IP that puts them in another country and cannot access the BBC iPlayer or Google thinks they are in Ireland or even sometimes America, so if you can still access all your normal sites then forget about it.

[TheWazzer]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

You are lucky some people get a new IP that puts them in another country and cannot access the BBC iPlayer or Google thinks they are in Ireland or even sometimes America, so if you can still access all your normal sites then forget about it.

Cheers mate for the super fast response. You learn something every day

Originally Posted by TheWazzer

Cheers mate for the super fast response. You learn something every day

The are many similar threads like this one

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...t-think-i.html

[Wicked_and_Crazy]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

You are lucky some people get a new IP that puts them in another country and cannot access the BBC iPlayer or Google thinks they are in Ireland or even sometimes America, so if you can still access all your normal sites then forget about it.

ohh i'd like a USA ip address for 24 hours. Want to watch something on MTV cribs but cant as im in the UK

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

ohh i'd like a USA ip address for 24 hours. Want to watch something on MTV cribs but cant as im in the UK

They are quite rare occurrences but do occasionally happen, but not when you would like it to happen.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

ohh i'd like a USA ip address for 24 hours. Want to watch something on MTV cribs but cant as im in the UK

Why don't you use something like Hotspot Shield?