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?

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

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?

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.

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!