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T-Mobile internet service "drifting"
Hi, I’ve had t-mobile internet for a week and several times I have had to call HULU because the internet was showing I was in another state. Has anyone else had this issue? I was told by the rep at Hulu that T mobile internet has a way of “drifting” showing a location that is incorrect and making Hulu think someone else is using my account. If this happens all the time, I can’t keep Tmolbile internet.
I use a couple of internet resources to find where the IP actually is. If I goto whatismyipaddress.com and find the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses it reports both. You can run the “my IP” 4-5 times you will see various IPv4 addresses reported. I usually see 4-5 and it seems to report the same one after a few different ones. The whatismyipaddress site tells me Nashville but going to ipinfo.io and using the search for the IP I discover that is NOT actually the location where that IPv4 address resides.
If you copy the IPv4 address and then navigate to ipinfo.io and use the search box to find where that IPv4 address resides it will tell you the city/state. I am in east TN, east of Knoxville and the rotating IPv4 addresses I find associated with my external IP are in Atlanta, GA actually. So, yes the IP address can be seen in a location/state different from the one you live in.
If you go to https://whatismyipaddress.com and check the IP address and then check it again and then again you will see the external IPv4 address does change. The IPv4 addresses appear to be shared so it it is not predictable. Their use of the IPv4 address for client location is based more upon a fixed wired internet paradigm vs the cellular 5G solution. T-Mobile uses 464XLAT with their IPv6 network so there are some issues with some streaming vendors and how they “locate” the end user client. I believe some users use a VPN solution but then again that just adds more cost to the solution.
