Post #2635341

2026-05-09 14:45 UTC

I was on mobile data, who knows where the mobile network gets their connection from

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@wampus@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 10:51

Ah, makes some sense. The mobile networks are even more erratic with how they assign IPs -- though I'd still be a little surprised if it was the wrong country entirely. It'd imply the provider is using IPs from a single range in multiple legal jurisdictions, which'd inherently make things like geofencing more difficult. Sorta like VPN functionality to access foreign data regions, as a result of sloppy configuration and negligence by the ISP. Wonder if it could also be something to do with IPV6 -- I think that's more common to see amongst mobile networks, and I'm honestly not too sure how well that can get mapped to geo locations -- I'd doubt the site, how its put together, would be tryin too hard to sort that out.

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