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Originally Posted by wdfifteen View Post
I have Starlink. I'm in Ohio, and my ISP is variously shown as located In Chicago or San Francisco. When I was with Frontier it could be Cleveland or Wheeling, West Virginia.
I don't understand this stuff.
Down to geographic IP mapping which isn't exactly accurate. Depends on network providers having a sensible layout (ha!) as well as sharing data about their network (again, ha!). Most of it is built from people self reporting, reverse DNS, etc.
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