Hello, Is anyone having problems setting the location in their own… - Feed Post by Omusubi
Hello,
Is anyone having problems setting the location in their own profile?
When I signed up, I set Italy as my home country and the flag showed correctly until..today, I think! O.o
Now, if you look at my profile it`ll tell you I am from Ukraine which I am not.
Odd.
I have tried changing it back to the way it was before, but to no avail. It`ll just keep going back to Ukraine. O.o
Has anyone experienced this?
Is anyone having problems setting the location in their own profile?
When I signed up, I set Italy as my home country and the flag showed correctly until..today, I think! O.o
Now, if you look at my profile it`ll tell you I am from Ukraine which I am not.
Odd.
I have tried changing it back to the way it was before, but to no avail. It`ll just keep going back to Ukraine. O.o
Has anyone experienced this?
posted by Omusubi
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Yeah, i live in Italy as well and sometimes i get carried to Russia. Usually in a couple days it goes back to your choice.- Yeah, i live in Italy as well and sometimes i get carried to Russia. Usually in a couple days it goes back to your choice.
The site primarily lists your location as what it detects from your IP address. The setting in your profile is subordinate to this and takes effect only if the site somehow can't detect your IP address.
I've noticed in the last few weeks that this site has been matching IP addresses to the wrong countries. I was listed as being from Italy for about 3 days. The problem doesn't just affect Italy though as I've noticed others, like Philippines being listed as USA.
http://software77.net/geo-ip/
- This link has a database listing which IP address blocks belong to which county. When I was set to Italy on JCJP, I checked on that site and it said my IP address was within the United Kingdom address block.
On that site, on the right side of the page, where it says "Country IP listing": set it to "Italy" and to "x.x.x.x-y.y.y.y format" and submit.
This lists all the IP address blocks assigned to Italy, so you can scroll down and find the block your IP address is within, to make 100% sure. ^^- (The only way I got my country listing on here back to the correct country was by geting a new IP address. I had to reboot my router and got given another UK address, one which JCJP liked!) :P
hmm let me check my profile to see- nope, no problem what so ever. hmm, i think it maybe for some countries out of the U.S i don't know.......
- It hasn't set everyone to the wrong countries. Almost everyone on here probably has the correct country, judging by the few people who have mentioned this problem. It's just something rare which I've seen happen to around 5-10 users on here.
I haven't seen any users from the U.S. have this happen yet, but there probably isn't any reason it couldn't happen there too. It just depends on if your IP address gets set to one of the address blocks which JCJP's list matches to an incorrect country. Your IP address changes every time your internet connection gets disconnected or you reboot your router. 
this happens to me when im at work... but only because im on a swedish domain.. when i get home it goes back and is correct
Thanks guys for your useful replies!
As of today, JC is still thinking I am Ukranian. I`ll check back in a couple of days to see if anything has changed on my profile.
@mog86uk thanks for the link! Very useful!- I notice you've finally made it back to Italy? 万歳！ :D
- Yeeeh!! :D Apparently the server was moved by my lack of winter outfits.
