said by Andy5000:Hi All - Not sure if there is a way around this, but we are located in midtown NYC and whenever we do a search for "local" things, our Apple Laptop seems to think we are located in Rome, NY.
I'm sure this is because TWC is giving us an IP which identifies as Rome, but is there any way around this?
An IP address can not identify a geographic location. Many ISPs and transit providers customarily include geographic clues in the IP address ptr record, such as, "adsl-69-105-38-120.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net" (an old residential ADSL account connection I once had); but it is not required by any convention, or legal statute. When I changed ISP from AT&T ('pacbell.net') to Sonic.net, I got a different, uncommon, but equally valid, naming on the residential IP address: "173-228-18-23.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net".
In the first example, the geographic clue is, "pltn13"; but I was not actually in the city of Pleasanton,, California.
In the second example, there is no geographic clue in the ptr name.
One common method of guessing a geographic location is based on the ARIN record of assignment. This accounts for the guesses I have seen that I was in San Ramon, California (based on the ARIN record of assignment for some residential IP address blocks to Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T), or Santa Rosa, California (headquarters of Sonic.net). But any IP address of any provider can be assigned to any customer in their service area with no intrinsic (to the IP address) way of learning its geographic location.