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Live and currently in winnipeg but cellular data shows i am in ontario
My signal shows i an in ontario but i am in Winnipeg. This causes me problems and i need it to be fixed. Thanks
Just curious, what website or tool are you using to determine your location?
If you are using a website to determine your location, based on your phones ip address, when you are using mobile data you cannot expect to get a reliable answer. This is an issue with mobile data networks in general.
I suspect telus uses gateways in Toronto and vancouver to interface their mobile network to the internet and do some form of load balancing between the two locations.
If you need to have an ip address that resolves to a specific address you need to use a VPN.
This problem is partly due to apple not allowing me to give precise location to certain apps but this would not be a problem if telus could afford to put up a few more towers. I guess it is too much for them. I would switch to bell but gonna stick with telus at the moment because i got a good contract. I just find it pathetic that they can’t provide me an ip where i am at but in ontario where are not allowed to do specific things such as trade bitcoin.
