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My computer thinks I'm in Canada?
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OK ,
Is that what it is supposed to be ?
What is your friends IP address showing up as ? (I mean the guy sharing the connection with you)
Bugging me this( not as much as you though I imagine) , I want to help get this sorted out , it's a freaky mystery up to now
Not sure what my IP is "supposed" to be. My roommate gets home tonight so I'll have him go to whatsmyip and see what he gets. Ha this is definitely bugging me a little more than you but I do appreciate the consistent effort to help me solve this mystery.
Roommate came home and is getting google canada so it's definitely the internet. I'll see if Time Warner would be of any help. I doubt I'll get anyone on the phone who cares or has any answer for me.
Right , you said that you had re booted the router , Yes ? if not do that .
It may be that your ISP is buying space from a Canadian company or there server are located in Canada so that could be the cause , just a thought .
Let us know what the folks at your ISP say will ya ?
It may be that your ISP is buying space from a Canadian company or there server are located in Canada so that could be the cause , just a thought .
Let us know what the folks at your ISP say will ya ?
Right , you said that you had re booted the router , Yes ? if not do that .
It may be that your ISP is buying space from a Canadian company or their server is located in Canada so that could be the cause , just a thought .
Let us know what the folks at your ISP say will ya ?
Ah , one more thought ...your not somehow connecting to a neighbours wireless by mistake or something , as their ISP could have the servers in Canada too ..
It may be that your ISP is buying space from a Canadian company or their server is located in Canada so that could be the cause , just a thought .
Let us know what the folks at your ISP say will ya ?
Ah , one more thought ...your not somehow connecting to a neighbours wireless by mistake or something , as their ISP could have the servers in Canada too ..
And why not ? We have great beer
I could sell my house and buy a house and grounds the size of the entire street i live on in Canada.
Made the front page of a national UK paper the other day, Alberta (i think) offering to fast track skilled UK immigrants to Cananda.
I'm having the same problem
I'm having the same problem, as is my fiancee. We both live near each other in Brooklyn and both have Time Warner. I think there is a problem with the IP address registration, and somehow Time Warner is identifying our IP addresses to the rest of the internet as being based out of Canada.
I haven't started the uphill battle of trying to have Time Warner sort it out yet, but I'm 99% sure it is not your computer that is at fault, but, in fact, the internets.
I'm having the same problem, as is my fiancee. We both live near each other in Brooklyn and both have Time Warner. I think there is a problem with the IP address registration, and somehow Time Warner is identifying our IP addresses to the rest of the internet as being based out of Canada.
I haven't started the uphill battle of trying to have Time Warner sort it out yet, but I'm 99% sure it is not your computer that is at fault, but, in fact, the internets.
Good to see President Bush is not the only one who knows there is a plural internet.
broken in bk too
hey
i'm also a mac user, also in brooklyn, also with TWC and also getting google.ca rerouting. funny thing is I AM Canadian, (beer please) so wtf.
i just noticed that if you search from the menu bar in safari, you get the reg google, try doing a zip code and you get the map, but if you navigate to google.com it sends you to .ca, and in firefox, both the navbar and direct address take you there.
i traced my ip, and it shows as nowhere. like one of those dead ones. but it is a 24.xxx, and it used to be a 192.xxx and i seem to remember rogers gives you 24.xxx right?
anyways, twc is out of ip#s? ipv6 ftw
hey
i'm also a mac user, also in brooklyn, also with TWC and also getting google.ca rerouting. funny thing is I AM Canadian, (beer please) so wtf.
i just noticed that if you search from the menu bar in safari, you get the reg google, try doing a zip code and you get the map, but if you navigate to google.com it sends you to .ca, and in firefox, both the navbar and direct address take you there.
i traced my ip, and it shows as nowhere. like one of those dead ones. but it is a 24.xxx, and it used to be a 192.xxx and i seem to remember rogers gives you 24.xxx right?
anyways, twc is out of ip#s? ipv6 ftw
The 192 address is definitely your internal network address. I just talked to Time Warner and they are currently "escalating" the issue and working on it. Do you all have RoadRunner.
Having same problem as everyone else. Mac/NY/TW-RR. I just registered today to say clearing cookies, rebooting, etc, doesn't work.
And not only does it think I'm in Canada, but the filter always needs to be reset when I go to google.com.
And my IP also came up as 24...
And not only does it think I'm in Canada, but the filter always needs to be reset when I go to google.com.
And my IP also came up as 24...
This has probably already been talked about but, has anyone tried using OnyX. It can clear up a lot of problems.
Here are some directions:
1. Download OnyX (a free maintenance utility).
2. Run OnyX and clear ALL caches (System, Fonts, User, etc.). Note, in each tab, execute the command. When it finished in that tab, it will ask you to reboot. Say NO. Go on to the next tab and repeat until all tabs are done. THEN REBOOT.
Yeah you guys probably already tried this but what the hell!
Here are some directions:
1. Download OnyX (a free maintenance utility).
2. Run OnyX and clear ALL caches (System, Fonts, User, etc.). Note, in each tab, execute the command. When it finished in that tab, it will ask you to reboot. Say NO. Go on to the next tab and repeat until all tabs are done. THEN REBOOT.
Yeah you guys probably already tried this but what the hell!
Yeah, I'd suggest calling your ISP. John Doe 57, since this is a "me too" message rather than a post offering help, I think the new OP should be commended for having searched before posting rather than mocked for having resurrected an old thread on the same subject.
I wasn't mocking him. I was just saying that it has been a long time since anyone last posted on this thread. In a way I was congratulating him.
This is what I hate about writing. You can't always tell what the tone of the person's speech is.
And that's the truth. I'm sorry for having misunderstood. That's why I tend to be pretty wordy in my writing.
I had this problem and every time I reset every setting in safari it would change countrys so I reset it until it was right
Up here in the Great White North nobody cares much about Fantasy Baseball, we're all about the Fantasy Curling. My fantasy curling co-ed all-star team has Colleen Jones, Randy Firby, Kevin Martin, and of course the incredibly hot Sandra Schmirler. You can keep your cute little white balls and dainty bats, we toss hundred-pound granite rocks around with whisk brooms!
Problem is one of those people is dead!
Did you ever get this fixed? My computer has been doing the same thing to me on absolutely everything. Every site that I go to thinks I am in Canada and it is so annoying.
Something may have changed your DNS server. Perhaps a trojan. Download and run Malwarebytes for Mac:
https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/
https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/