cannot set my online location t where i live

[peter williams]

I live in middlesex, near heathrow airport.

the problem is, any website that i contact, to change my settings, emails me saying that the computer is in Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire.

please, how do i convince them that the computer is not there?

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

 

Unfortunately there is little you can do about that as the location of Milton Keynes is the general area for the web server your Internet Service Provider uses, all web traces using the IP number that is generated by that server as allocated to you, all point to Milton Keynes.

 

it is the IP number that has been allocated to your internet service that is telling folk and other computers that you are there and not your real address.

 

As a matter of interest I sometimes appear in all sorts of odd parts of the country depending on which server is in use at the time, as my ISP uses several.

 

If you click on this link, it will open with your IP address number in it, if you then click the "Look up address" button it will show the Milton Keynes address as that is what other websites will be seeing.

 

http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup

 

If you are wanting a change of that, you should give your internet service provider a call, it is them who are responsible for the IP address.

 

Nev.

[KenB]

Hi

 

I have just looked up the IP Address of your last post.

It is not showing Milton Keynes but Hartford Baldock - near the A1(M) :)

 

It is the location of the server - not your house that is identified.