my phones IP address says im in another city?

**mikeyt24** · 04-12-2012, 10:59 AM

im in toronto ... but my IP address says im in calgary?

im assuming my phone got hacked and rerouted to calgary or something...

how can i change the IP address on my phone? help please

...like in facebook, in the security settings, it says my phone is in calgary .. this is strange. i called bell (my service provider) and they told me that my phone is connected to a local tower.]]

i need help. how can i change my phones IP (my phone is a telus phone on the bell network)... bold 9780

**Batter Pudding** · 04-12-2012, 03:35 PM

That will be down to where Bell have their main base. They will not have a DHCP server in every city, those IP addresses will cover a much bigger area. So what you see is Bell's office and most apps should realise this.

The IP Address is not tied to the local phone mast, it is tied to your phone. If you drive around the local area I expect you will see the IP Address stays the same over a huge area. Nothing you can do.

I live in the UK and laugh when I see websites trying to locate me based on IP Address as they always end up in a town 10 miles away as that is where the head office of the Cable company is based that I use. Usually spotted in those adverts of "There is a girl in your town of xxx who wants to.... etc"

**Batter Pudding** · 04-12-2012, 03:40 PM

Haha - just checked the map. I see why you would want that changed as it is the other side of the country. So I guess that Bell are just dishing out one set of IP Addresses to cover the whole of Canada. So anywhere you are in the country I guess you have the same IP Address.

This is why we have GPS as IP Addresses can never be used for location information as you will only ever find the server that is dishing out the addresses and not the device itself.

**soren203** · 04-12-2012, 05:19 PM

That might not be such a bad thing, think of all the illega...ahem shady things you could do.

Kidding not sure sounds like there is nothing you can do.

**Batter Pudding** · 04-13-2012, 04:51 AM

Originally Posted by soren203

That might not be such a bad thing, think of all the illega...ahem shady things you could do.

Kidding not sure sounds like there is nothing you can do.

They don't use the IP Address to track you. That just lets them know who you pay to get onto the Internet, and therefore who to ask for the Internet access logs.

The phone company will have a nice separate log for physical location using all the phone masts you have been using for the past year as the 2G\3G side of the phone has connected to. They know exactly where you have been and who you have talked to... we all carry personal tracking devices.

**gariac** · 04-15-2012, 03:43 AM

If you are on BIS and using the tower not wifi, you are nearly always in another "city". Run ip2location.com to see where the RIM server is located.

This is actually a feature in my opinion. The Blackberry serves as a proxy. if you run Opera, you get a proxy effect as well

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**mikeyt24** · 04-15-2012, 10:51 AM

thanks peeps.

**gariac** · 04-16-2012, 04:39 AM

Darn tapatalk bypasses the copy and paste function.

I ran ip2location on the RIM browser and it indicated I was in Farmington MN. But the server is identified as RIM. You need to make sure your wifi is off when you do the test.

Running Opera mini, my location is Amsterdam Ohio.

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**Batter Pudding** · 04-16-2012, 05:07 AM

@gariac: Opera Mini is putting you into Amsterdam, Ohio as it runs through a proxy to gain its speed by reducing the amount of data downloaded. Everything gets compressed in Amsterdam and then the smaller files passed to you.

For a laugh, I have just tested out my Blackberry with IP2Location from my home on the UK south coast.

Over WiFi it is, as expected, the same geographic location as my home broadband - which is "only" 35 miles away.

Over 3G that swaps to "The Isle of Man" over 375 miles away. (Funnily enough, right next to the start line of the TT Races). I assume RIM are in the Isle of Man for tax reasons or maybe the IT guys are bikers.

Using Opera Mini it gets to a comical 1220 miles away in Reykjavík, Iceland!! A very different country to the UK - the land of volcanoes and free electricity.

So - if any website is trying to work out your geographical location by using an IP Address then they are pretty clueless.

**faizakakak** · 04-16-2012, 05:30 AM

why don't you call the network administrators?

**gariac** · 04-16-2012, 10:09 PM

Most of the time, Opera runs me through Mountain View, Ca. Opera is similar to RIM in compression and such. Unless you stream audio or video, Opera uses a proxy

Now when you run the RIM browser on wifi, the BIS indicator doesn't go out. But I'm not sure you are getting the full protection of BIS. (You can also check status to see if you are on BIS or BES.)

I don't have Bolt installed anymore, but I recall the IP address was T-Mobile in either New Jersey (forget the town) or Los Angeles. when you tether the phone to a notebook, it will also use the carrier IP.

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**RoboticGolem** · 04-27-2012, 12:37 AM

Heh. You should have seen back in the day. Out here in california and my 7290 t-mo phone always turned up in the netherlands. Then my 8700 usually came out of greenland. It was damned weird. Always had to tell it english when I went to international websites. Some places wouldnt even let me view content (which was the real pain)

I imagine it just is based on where the purchase of said block of ip addresses was made. Or even more simply, the issuing dns server.