Orbi r50 has location wrong

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How do I fix my Orbi’s location. A few months ago it started saying it was located in New Jersey and it has messed up all my local channels, I don’t really want to watch news or sports from Philadelphia. How can I get it to recalibrate to the correction.

plemans · Answer

I could be wrong but your orbi doesn't set your location.&nbsp;From my experience, that's usually coming from the ISPWhat modem/gateway do you connect to?&nbsp;Who's your isp?&nbsp;

Sbennumi · Answer

I have xfinity. I just checked the ip addresses geolocation and it states that it already is the correct location.

plemans · Answer

Is it in the correct location?&nbsp;And you didn't answer what modem/gateway you have?&nbsp;

antinode · Answer

&gt; How do I fix my Orbi's location. [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In which frame of reference?&nbsp; Are you moving it around?&nbsp;&gt; [...] it started saying it was located in New Jersey [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "it"?&nbsp; Your router has no clue as to its location.&nbsp; Who, exactly,believes that it's in any particular place, right or wrong?&nbsp;&gt; [...] I just checked the ip addresses geolocation [...]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "checked" it _how_, exactly?&nbsp;&gt; [...] and it states that it already is the correct location.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "it"?&nbsp;&nbsp; Various organizations claim to keep records of locations for IPaddresses and/or wireless-network SSIDs, which are collected in variousways, with various degrees of accuracy. Apparently, one of them has abad location for some kind of identifier associated with your router.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If your TV service has it wrong, then your argument is with them, notwith your router.&nbsp;&gt; And you didn't answer what modem/gateway you have?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I doubt that that matters.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Various web sites act as if I'm situated 20-odd miles away, at theoffices of my ISP.&nbsp; I'm not, but the worst problem this error causes meis needing to type my actual ZIP code into various forms before I getuseful data on store locations, and so on.

plemans · Answer

&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt; And you didn't answer what modem/gateway you have?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I doubt that that matters.&nbsp;&nbsp;Doubt all you want. a family members internet is a LTE gateway and usually says the location is several states away. Its why the question is asked.&nbsp;

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Orbi r50 has location wrong

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