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IP address location

I live downtown Vancouver BC. In the past my modem IP address location was Burnaby BC now my modem IP location says Saskatchewan. The reason I am wondering about this is our ping times have increased by at least 10 times or more when testing to local test sites and it has been so ever since I noticed the modem IP location change. My ping from Vancouver to Burnaby is 80ms to 100ms. Pages load very slow on both PC and Mac. One more Question; our TV set-up box keeps restarting at least once and sometimes 3 times a day, Telus says there is nothing wrong with it, but since it takes 10 Min to go through a reboot and start again we can miss a chunk out of a news program or movie and if watching a recorded program recorded programs will not load for at least 15 Min. Thanks for any input.

Websites displaying your IP address location use geo IP database information which can be rather inaccurate, eg because of IP trading. Showing Burnaby for a Vancouver downtown IP is in fact rather accurate. Rather look at the routing: Did you check the traceroute to the sites to which your ping increased? It is also a good idea to save such output so that you can compare when things get better or worse.

If it says sask make sure you manually choose a speedtest site or

try this

»vancouver.speedtest.telus.com

Never ending peering issues from TELUS; This is nothing new.

@MCFIT > Call in again. If your boxes take that long to reboot, something is affecting your connection and I suspect it won't be the latency (ping). Higher latency on your computers may be the result of whatever is affecting your connection. Plus the boxes shouldn't be rebooting on their own like that (only potential exception is a system update and that usually happens when the box isn't in use).

@VE7HAM, what does an external geolocation database have to do with peering? It has been posted here many times before. Geolocation databases in most cases can take up to 30 days to update and that is fully independent of any ISP on the planet. The location of your IP in a Geo IP database will not affect your connection in any way. Those companies willing to pay a lot of money can get the updates in a week but most speedtest sites won't put out that kind of cash.

I'm in Edmonton and I had an IP change 8 months ago that said I was in Burnaby. My latency didn't change at all.

You misread my post. I was indicating that he is having peering issues regarding of what his IP is. For example; My Bell 3G public IP used to be in western Canada. My private IP is in eastern Canada. My ping never changes. However, TELUS is known to have routing issues on a routine basis which can affect ping times.