Ip Addresses

[jackyseymour]

I've just been on a couple of sites dealing with ip addresses, both of which give an identical ip but place me in either Bangkok or Chiang Mai. I'm in neither. The Bangkok one gives a very detailed addess, with a Thai name, number of soi, telephone etc. What's going on?

[PMK]

Probably due to the ISP using a cache. They just about all do here.

[lomatopo]

Your IP address is associated with an ISP. Any physical address given is associated with the ISP, and the records they keep/provide. There is no association, although there could be down to a region, with your physical location. If authorities need to find you they can as they can ask the ISP for your details because the ISP has a record of the IP addresses handed out to you over some time period.

What is your concern or dilemma?

[jackyseymour]

Your IP address is associated with an ISP. Any physical address given is associated with the ISP, and the records they keep/provide. There is no association, although there could be down to a region, with your physical location. If authorities need to find you they can as they can ask the ISP for your details because the ISP has a record of the IP addresses handed out to you over some time period.

What is your concern or dilemma?

No concerns or dilemmas - merely an interest sprung from a post on another forum about where an email originated. I have recently changed internet providers, in that I had a battery dial up, to a DSL, does that make a difference? I suppose so. I visited another site which provides software for a trial period (only three measly days) which had thrown up another isp address for me, but which I could not locate on an isp tracer site.

Is it that there are only certain full and correct addresses/addressees given in say, urban areas? something like Google Earth? I would simply prefer my web surfing/email correspondence to be private. I feel that we are all intruded upon too much on the internet, cookies and all, in the guise of 'marketing'. When I run Spybot, all manner of sites I wouldn't have visited, casinos and the like, are thrown up in the bar running down and along the moniter bar. I find it all too much of an intrusion.

[Guest Reimar]

As long as you didn't use an fixed/static IP, all searches will show the used ISP as your location.

So you don't have to be worry about your privacy!