Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico

adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My neighbors (on the same Spectrum subnet) aren’t seeing this so it only affects my IP address. Google doesn’t give a crap about single user problems.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    if you’ve cleared your browser histories (cookies, mainly) and it persists and bothers you, you can try to force a new ip from their dhcp. process would vary depending on what gear you have. at home, i use my own and only need to give the router a different wan mac and reboot the modem. with their gear, might need to just unplug the stuff overnight or something as i dont think you can get at the settings–hell, you need their stupid app to change the wifi password.

    but like i said, i’d just let them deal with it. it probably only affects their own determination of your location. if it does spread elsewhere because they’re ‘sharing’ that data with others–just roll with it. i actually love it when we hop on a weather site or something and they’re way off, like michigan or missouri.

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    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I avoid changing the MAC to pull a new address because family members actively use the VPN server via DNS and it can take a while for DDNS to update everywhere, but that’s what I’m going to have to do.

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