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network thinks I'm in a different country
I just returned home from vacation in Denmark. Devices that traveled with us are 2 cell phones and a PC laptop. Now that we are back at home and connected to the home network via R6250, the netw...
sandman20 wrote:
I can only conclude based on these results that there is an issue with the network/router.
Have you ruled out that it might be your cellphones and/or laptop that think you have migrated?
They seem more likely candidates than a router that has never left the country. As it is, your router is not involved in Google's searches and where it finds ads.
If this is a Windows laptop, have you checked it for Language & Region? Not knowing which version of Windows you might have you'll have to track down the setting yourself.
Then there is Google itself and you cached data.
As to the router, it has region settings for the wifi. You don't say where you are. In the USA it is fixed. Elsewhere you can change it in the Wireless Settings Screen Fields.
That's it. No other geographical settings according to the manual.
Thanks for the reply. I took both cell phones and the travel laptop off the home network and reset the router. With those devices still quarrantined, both my work laptop and home desktop that never traveled still show web searches in Danish.
Also, as I said when I connect the laptop to my phone's hotspot via cellular data, everything works as it should.
All very strange to me. I've updated the router firmware to the latest version, with no change.
sandman20 wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I took both cell phones and the travel laptop off the home network and reset the router. With those devices still quarrantined, both my work laptop and home desktop that never traveled still show web searches in Danish.
And Windows?
I have seen these "deportation" events when travelling in the USA from the UK.
The network stayed at home. I had to tell the laptop that I had returned home.
Checked the time zones?