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My new faster Xfinity modem is giving my geolocation wrong. It's in MD; I'm in MI. Please help locate my service correctly!
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My new faster Xfinity modem is giving my geolocation wrong. It's in MD; I'm in MI. Please help locate my service correctly!
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3 years ago
You likely recently received a new / different WAN (public) IP address assignment to your connection from their DHCP server / IP address pool, and the rDNS / geolocation data that is associated with it is now incorrect for you as it previously belonged to someone else that lived in that other area.
Comcast shuffles blocks of IP addresses around the country all the time. ISP's don't correct this. A third party service does. Unfortunately, this is typically a *back-burner* thing to get corrected. The only thing that you can do is to report it. You can try this;
https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-location-correction
http://www.ipligence.com/contact/
https://www.ip2location.com/contact/
https://www.home.neustar/contact-us
https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ip/
Wait for the geolocation provider to approve your request. If your request is approved, the amount of time it takes to see the correction varies by provider. The average is a month or more.
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