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Wrong Location
This is very annoying. I live in western Montana, yet when I’m online, websites show I’m in Seattle, Washington, more than 500 miles away and in a different time zone. Surely someone in T-Mobile’s ...
ibdiver wrote:
This is very annoying. I live in western Montana, yet when I’m online, websites show I’m in Seattle, Washington, more than 500 miles away and in a different time zone. Surely someone in T-Mobile’s IT department is smart enough to fix this.
Welcome to the world of cellular internet. The location reported is for your IP address which is the established at the facility where TM aggregates all cellular signals and ultimately connects to the internet. You can’t control that. It may even change from time-to-time. The best you can do is use applications that don’t care about it, or allow you to establish a physical location (Like YouTube TV). Some VPNs may also allow you to do that.
ibdiver wrote:This is very annoying. I live in western Montana, yet when I’m online, websites show I’m in Seattle, Washington, more than 500 miles away and in a different time zone. Surely someone in T-Mobile’s IT department is smart enough to fix this.
Welcome to the world of cellular internet. The location reported is for your IP address which is the established at the facility where TM aggregates all cellular signals and ultimately connects to the internet. You can’t control that. It may even change from time-to-time. The best you can do is use applications that don’t care about it, or allow you to establish a physical location (Like YouTube TV). Some VPNs may also allow you to do that.
Instead of continuing to blame this on applications that are NOT ever going to go back to not want/requiring your location why do you update the tower software/firmware to allow users to input the physical location of the tower. This could then be passed to the applications.
