I gamble online and because the laws vary by state for online gambling, each online casino uses your IP address to make sure you are in a state that it is legal in before you can play. I am in Mississippi currently, it’s legal here. My IP comes up as Louisiana, however and I am blocked from using the site. I tried using a VPN but the site detected the use of a VPN and blocked me from using the site for that reason as well.
Is there a way to have my IP reconfigured to its actual location? I don’t want to ‘fake/mask’ my location with a VPN. I just want it to show my actual location or at least in the same state I am in so that I can access the sites I wish to use
I have an iPhone 15 pro. tmobile as the service provider. No access to wifi.
FYI, I check O365 login locations from phones in our organization occasionally and notice that logins sometimes will come from other locations in geographic area. It is always Ipv6 addresses and mostly Apple devices. I am in LA and will sometimes see anywhere from Tx to Atlanta.
My only suggestion would maybe turn phone off for an hour or so and see if it picks up different location?
TMo is a secondary provider in some areas and often piggybacks on other carriers (ATT and VZ).
You’re getting a foreign IP from a nearby tower, which is challenging to change in the same location. The same happens in SoCal, but they usually stick to the same state (mine thinks I’m in San Diego right now, when I am not…)
I assumed the problem was with the service provider. I explained that I am using an iPhone in case there was a way to fix it from my iPhone (using the settings or an app I can download, etc)
I wanted to avoid calling tmobile but if that’s the only way then that’s that.
I’m not going to switch providers because of this though lol. I might be a gambling addict… but I’m not that weird.
This is a problem that just began occurring when I arrived in Mississippi a week ago. Otherwise my IP generally shows close to actual location in the state I am in at the time
That’s what I would think… but wanted to know if there was a way to fix it myself before I contacted tmobile. Or if I even could have it fixed by them. I’m travelling right now (I’ve been in Mississippi about a week, if that might make a difference) but this is normally not a problem and my IP address shows the actual state I am in otherwise
There are databases with mapping of locations to IP addresses. These are not always accurate. If this is the case the problem is not with your service provider but with the owner of the database (that provides / sells that information to the gambling site).
Cellular networks have “exit nodes” where the internal cellular network “meets Internet”. This is where the IP address belong to. It is possible that the location is shown accurately (as an IP address is not your location, but the location of the data center the IP address belong to). Mobile carriers could have many of these exit nodes in a state, they could have none and have them in another state, and its likely that they’ll have some cell towers located I a state connected to these exit nodes in other states, as they likely hook them up to the closest one.
The lesson for this is that sites should not rely on IP addresses for accurate locations, especially when using it to enforce regulations.
The IP geolocation data is either incorrect. In which case the only recourse is to contact either the gambling site or the company providing the geolocation services (if you can figure out who that is), convince them to update the mapping, and hope they follow throw within a reasonable timeframe. They will in turn contact the telco to confirm that information; or you contact the telco in the first place see if they will do it on your behalf.
Or the geolocation is correct, because your internet connection is actually coming from a place that physically exists in Louisiana. In which case, only the telco can decide how your traffic is routed. They may not even physically have the infrastructure in your area necessary to give you a Mississippi IP address.
