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IP location ...UK?!

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So I reset my router and 2 of my games complained about login paterns. The one can't ID where my location is and the other simply doesn't. Speedtest logs me as London, UK. IP 105.x.x.x so what gives?
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I was able to pull your 105.237.0.0/16 address from the moderator control panel (this forum logs the IP address of each post), and after sending a WHOIS query to AFRINIC, I discovered that it belongs to MTN Business:

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% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

% Note: this output has been filtered.

% Information related to '105.237.0.0 - 105.237.255.255'

inetnum:        105.237.0.0 - 105.237.255.255
netname:        MTN_ADSL
descr:          MTN Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd
country:        ZA
admin-c:        BH99-AFRINIC
tech-c:         BH99-AFRINIC
org:            ORG-VSA1-AFRINIC
status:         ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      MTNBUSINESS-MNT
source:         AFRINIC # Filtered
parent:         0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255

organisation:   ORG-VSA1-AFRINIC
org-name:       MTN Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd
org-type:       LIR
country:        ZA
address:        MTN Business,
address:        Heron Place,
address:        c/o Century Boulevard and Heron Crescent,
address:        Century City
address:        Cape Town 7700
e-mail:         abuse@mtnbusiness.co.za
e-mail:         ip-maint@mtnbusiness.net
e-mail:         ip-admin@mtnbusiness.co.za
phone:          +27 11 235 6500
fax-no:         +27 21 658 8552
admin-c:        MBIP-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MBIP-AFRINIC
mnt-ref:        AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
source:         AFRINIC # Filtered

person:         Brad Hendrickse
nic-hdl:        BH99-AFRINIC
address:        MTN Business,
address:        Heron Place,
address:        c/o Century Boulevard and Heron Crescent,
address:        Century City
address:        Cape Town
address:        South Africa
e-mail:         brad.hendrickse@mtnbusiness.co.za
phone:          +27-83-200-2724
mnt-by:         MTNBUSINESS-MNT
source:         AFRINIC # Filtered
If your ISP is Afrihost, then this makes sense, as they've recently switched to using the MTN backbone instead of the Internet Solutions one.

As to why it's showing up as being UK based, I have a possible answer. The 105.0.0.0/8 block was allocated to AFRINIC on November 19, 2010; it was either previously allocated elsewhere and unused, and the block was handed back to the RIRs in an attempt to alleviate IPv4 address space exhaustion, or it was never allocated before that date. In any case, whatever service that is using your IP address for geolocation purposes is probably using an outdated geolocation database.
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Ron2K wrote:If your ISP is Afrihost, then this makes sense
Or Axxess, for that matter.
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@Ron we really need that +1 button... Thanks for your post :).
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Thanks Ron.
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