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Sbennumi
Apr 01, 2021Aspirant
Orbi r50 has location wrong
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 Philadelph...
plemans
Apr 01, 2021Guru - Experienced User
I could be wrong but your orbi doesn't set your location.
From my experience, that's usually coming from the ISP
What modem/gateway do you connect to?
Who's your isp?
- SbennumiApr 01, 2021AspirantI have xfinity. I just checked the ip addresses geolocation and it states that it already is the correct location.
- plemansApr 01, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Is it in the correct location?
And you didn't answer what modem/gateway you have?
- antinodeApr 01, 2021Guru
> How do I fix my Orbi's location. [...]
In which frame of reference? Are you moving it around?
> [...] it started saying it was located in New Jersey [...]
"it"? Your router has no clue as to its location. Who, exactly,
believes that it's in any particular place, right or wrong?> [...] I just checked the ip addresses geolocation [...]
"checked" it _how_, exactly?
> [...] and it states that it already is the correct location.
"it"?
Various organizations claim to keep records of locations for IP
addresses and/or wireless-network SSIDs, which are collected in various
ways, with various degrees of accuracy. Apparently, one of them has a
bad location for some kind of identifier associated with your router.If your TV service has it wrong, then your argument is with them, not
with your router.
> And you didn't answer what modem/gateway you have?I doubt that that matters.
Various web sites act as if I'm situated 20-odd miles away, at the
offices of my ISP. I'm not, but the worst problem this error causes me
is needing to type my actual ZIP code into various forms before I get
useful data on store locations, and so on.