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My location in Chrome Notifications & Speedtest are wrong

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I have recently noticed that when I have Chrome Notifications come up that the location (for weather notification) will list the wrong location. I am currently in Michigan and I am being given notifications for Maryland. I also went to Speedtest and the location there is also using the Washington DC area for my location, even though I am in Michigan. I have run Kaspersky Antivirus 2013 and MBAM in safe mode and they come up with nothing detected for malware/viruses, so I don't have a clue what could be causing this. Anyone have any ideas on what causes this and how it can be fixed?

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are you using a VPN or something like Hola?

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Maybe your ISP has you connected to a server in Washington

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:o another michigander!

 

All it's doing is taking your IP address and tracing it to the nearest ISP hub, if you use some sort of VPN or something then that could have an impact on it.

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Hi All,

 

I have recently noticed that when I have Chrome Notifications come up that the location (for weather notification) will list the wrong location. I am currently in Michigan and I am being given notifications for Maryland. I also went to Speedtest and the location there is also using the Washington DC area for my location, even though I am in Michigan. I have run Kaspersky Antivirus 2013 and MBAM in safe mode and they come up with nothing detected for malware/viruses, so I don't have a clue what could be causing this. Anyone have any ideas on what causes this and how it can be fixed?

Make sure your chrome location settings are set like this 

EDIT: I've also seen kaspersky do stupid shit like this, remove it. 

 

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:o another michigander!

 

All it's doing is taking your IP address and tracing it to the nearest ISP hub, if you use some sort of VPN or something then that could have an impact on it.

Michigan FTW

 

ATT does this to me, apparently i live in ohio, only happens with ipv6 though, my ipv4 location is right

 

 

 

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Make sure your chrome location settings are set like this 

EDIT: I've also seen kaspersky do stupid shit like this, remove it. 

I set my Chrome up like this, but it still shows wrong location for Speedtest. I want to keep Kaspersky until I find something better. Any recommendations on anti-virus to use?

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Michigan FTW

 

ATT does this to me, apparently i live in ohio, only happens with ipv6 though, my ipv4 location is right

How do I check what my IP address is in ipv4 and ipv6?

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How do I check what my IP address is in ipv4 and ipv6?

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I set my Chrome up like this, but it still shows wrong location for Speedtest. I want to keep Kaspersky until I find something better. Any recommendations on anti-virus to use?

Windows defender is all you need. 

 

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