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Been getting Odd IP addresses for quite sometime
Hello,
I’ve been a mobility customer for a while.
I’ve noticed my iPhone obtains an external mobile public IP address for the past couple of years from a small pool:
207.228.78.0/24
The IP address most of the time lists me as in Calgary when I’m 3 hours north of Calgary.
Sometimes the Gateway IP is something like:
25.228.123.92.
Other times my phone gets a different Address from another pool:
198.166.206.0/24 which lists me out in Halifax
I use whatsmyipddress.com and Network Analyzer to view my IP addresses and Routing table.
Traceroutes always seem to exit the internal gateway through Ottawa or Toronto.
For example if I google something like a restaurant or Canadian tire, it will list stores 3 hours south of me. Even when i travel out of town to Sask or Vancouver the IP addresses are the same. Seems fixed somehow, they don’t change out of that specific IP Pool ever.
Anyone else experience this ?
I’ve been a mobility customer for a while.
I’ve noticed my iPhone obtains an external mobile public IP address for the past couple of years from a small pool:
207.228.78.0/24
The IP address most of the time lists me as in Calgary when I’m 3 hours north of Calgary.
Sometimes the Gateway IP is something like:
25.228.123.92.
Other times my phone gets a different Address from another pool:
198.166.206.0/24 which lists me out in Halifax
I use whatsmyipddress.com and Network Analyzer to view my IP addresses and Routing table.
Traceroutes always seem to exit the internal gateway through Ottawa or Toronto.
For example if I google something like a restaurant or Canadian tire, it will list stores 3 hours south of me. Even when i travel out of town to Sask or Vancouver the IP addresses are the same. Seems fixed somehow, they don’t change out of that specific IP Pool ever.
Anyone else experience this ?
9 Replies
- FuzzyLogic
Community Power User
- Thanks, yes somewhat similar. My IP doesn’t change that much though. Which is why I’m curious.
For me this has been going on since about Aug 2020. Where my phone is in the same address pool 207.228.78.0/24.
Since it’s been in that pool for so long my guess is it’s based either on account or phone number where they have their own logical grouping probably by sim (imsi ) Or it was placed there. I get 1 of 254 of those addresses in the pool. I’ll be heading out of AB soon so I’ll see if being somewhere else in the country still results in my phone being in that pool. Just found it strange with the trace routes travelling across the country internally before leaving the gateway.
No VPNs enabled
iCloud relay disabled.
I guess I could ask, anyone else in Edmonton in the same pool 207.228.78.0 or the 198.166.64.0?
Also the gateway net range 25.0.0.0 previously used by UK MoD (this one however is also known that these old UK DoD (MoD) leased back the IPs they had due to internet running low on IPv4 addresses.
As for overall performance, mobile Internet runs fine.- Nighthawk
I'm in Edmonton and have a 198.166.x IP address on my iPhone. I've had no issues with various sites or apps incorrectly guessing my location.
