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jat
join:2008-04-28
Burlington, ON
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Re: US/American IPs on Teksavvy. Possible?
I don't really think this is possible, as there's really no such thing as an "American IP." It's all about what the geolocation services say, and they can use any number of techniques to determine what country the IP "belongs" to.
The most basic way of determining country is to look at where the ISP owning the IP is located. jfmezei's solution would work around that. But setting up a US subsidiary would probably be a big headache for TekSavvy.
However, the geolocation services obviously use other techniques as well. For example, GeoIP guesses (correctly) that my IP is from Burlington, Ontario, Canada, despite the fact that TekSavvy doesn't advertise that anywhere. So how do they know? Well, GeoIP's FAQ claims that they have affiliates that send them an IP address and geographic location of users who sign up for their websites. So even if the IP belongs to a US company, as soon as you sign up for a website affiliated with GeoIP with your home address, your IP will be labeled as Canadian again. Incidentally, IP addresses neighbouring mine (which I don't own) also show up as being from Burlington, probably because they label the whole block based on the information I submitted to some unknown website. So even if you're very careful never to submit your address on the web, if someone on a nearby IP does, your whole block could suddenly become "Canadian."
Really, your best bet is to just tunnel through an American VPS. Then the owner of the IP, the hardware, and even most of the users, are all going to be American, and the IP will likely be classified as such. But then again, I've heard of many cases of Americans on US ISPs being unable to access US services. Same goes for Canadians unable to access Canadian content, and Brits unable to access British content, etc. So you'll always be at the mercy of the geolocation services, no matter what you do. | |
Bellox
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| said by jat  :However, the geolocation services obviously use other techniques as well. For example, GeoIP guesses (correctly) that my IP is from Burlington, Ontario, Canada, despite the fact that TekSavvy doesn't advertise that anywhere. So how do they know? Well, GeoIP's FAQ claims that they have affiliates that send them an IP address and geographic location of users who sign up for their websites. So even if the IP belongs to a US company, as soon as you sign up for a website affiliated with GeoIP with your home address, your IP will be labeled as Canadian again. Well, in that case, they probably think there's a lot of Canadians that live in 90210. But interesting, I didn't think Geo-IP services went that far into things. | |
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