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Location issues after moving (R6400v2)
I've recently moved from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania, and I've brought along the router I bought several years ago. Upon connecting it to my parent's modem, it helped a lot with net issues we were havin...
The modem is an Arris Touchstone CM8200. I'm unsure about the gateway. Since this device is on my parent's account, so I'd have to ask them for access to it.
For the reset and install, I did not, as I didn't realize that was something that had to be done! I simply plugged it in, updated the firmware, and we started using it.
It doesn't have to be done but is usually recommended when moving from one service to the next.
I'd try that first.
> [...] I've recently moved from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania, and I've
> brought along the router [...]The router has no idea where it is; that location information (right
or wrong) comes from other sources.https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/2079604#M148459
> From what I've read online, [...]
Thanks for the helpful links.
> I'd try that first.I'd expect that to make no difference. See "The router has no idea
where it is [...]", above.plemans Thank you very much, I'll give that a try and see what happens!
If the router has no idea where it is and gets its information from other sources, then there's no source for the Oklahoma location to come from other than from the router itself. My parents never had any connections to Oklahoma until my router came into play. Their location services were correct before I added my router in, so I don't know where it's getting that location from other than simply having been bought and registered there when I got it. I didn't transfer my net here, I got rid of my original provider.
No links were provided as this issue was searched for over the course of several days, so no links were saved, and it often contained information that I didn't understand as, like I said, I'm not tech savvy, so I didn't deem it worth saving. Hence why I'm asking here, for proper clarification on my specific issue and hopefully gain some clear steps that I can follow and use to fix this issue.
Lastly, the link you sent wasn't very helpful. There isn't a solution in that forum for that question.
> If the router has no idea where it is and gets its information from
> other sources, then there's no source for the Oklahoma location to come
> from other than from the router itself. [...]Huh? That makes no sense. The router doesn't "[get] its information
from" anyplace; the router _has_ no location information, and it
_provides_ no location information. _Any_ location information is
coming from some other source.Your router has properties which can allow it to be identified. (MAC
address, for example.)Someone might have observed your router when it was active at its old
location. A passer-by with a mobile device might have detected its
wireless-network signal, for example.Such a person/organization might maintain a data base wherein your
router's identity is associated with its old location. Now that you've
moved your router, that association is incorrect. The problem is not
with the router, it's with the data base.
When some web site or other wants to know your location, it does not
consult your router. (Your router has no idea where it is.) That web
site might consult some router-location data base, and get some
out-of-date information from that. The problem is not with the router,
it's with the data base.There's more than one such router-location data base. Different web
sites (people, organizations, ...) might consult different such data
bases, leading to different results. I have no idea who's using whose
data base to get the old location for your router. Perhaps someday
it'll get updated with your router's new location.> [...] I'm not tech savvy, [...]
In that case, perhaps you should ask more questions, and make fewer
(unfounded) asertions.> [...] the link you sent wasn't very helpful. There isn't a solution in
> that forum for that question.
The problem is not with the router, it's with the data base. Not in
my control.Possibly interesting:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6753070
Some organized Web searching for terms like, say:
router location
might find more. I just wouldn't expect to find a way to fix the
"problem" with your router.