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Standard User mr2gti
(member) Sat 19-Oct-13 22:27:35
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


[re: billford] [link to this post]
 
Or Move to Greece to prove the route right lol

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Standard User billford
(elder) Sat 19-Oct-13 22:28:43
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


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Yup, that's one I hadn't thought of laugh

Bill
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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Sat 19-Oct-13 22:37:20
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


[re: mr2gti] [link to this post]
 
It may be that Daisy / Vivaciti have started to allocate addresses from an IPv4 block previously used in Greece. This sort of thing may become more common as the IPv4 address space is fully allocated, meaning new allocations must be made by reallocating previously used IPv4 space. The effect is a bit like getting calls for the previous user of a reallocated phone number.

As a matter of interest, what does RIPE Whois say when you enter your IP address?


The geolocation databases are far from perfect. On my wired machines, which cannot send GPS data or Wi-Fi SSIDs, Google's geolocation engine is convinced I'm in Billericay. I have no idea why, as Zen are in the Manchester area and the /28 IPv4 block allocated to my network has been allocated to me (in Bedfordshire) since July 2005. You'd have thought Google would have noticed the only traffic from devices with GPS and/or Wi-Fi on our NAT IP address comes from Bedfordshire by now.

It's rare for the geolocation databases to have an IP address listed in the wrong country.


It is probably worth the original poster raising this issue with his ISP, as they should be able to persuade Google to correct the country data.


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Standard User Apprentice
(knowledge is power) Sat 19-Oct-13 22:41:36
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


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In reply to a post by billford:
Seems to me you have 2 options left:

a) persuade your ISP not to do silly routing

b) Learn Greek.

Good luck...

There is a third .....

Look for a Greek Interpreter tongue

Alastair

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Standard User mr2gti
(member) Sat 19-Oct-13 22:46:11
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


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http://www.the-rx.co.uk/ad8.jpg

That's what RIPE gives.

I have logged it with the ISP - no doubt it'll be looked at Monday onwards.

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Standard User billford
(elder) Sat 19-Oct-13 22:46:12
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


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In reply to a post by Apprentice:
There is a third .....

Look for a Greek Interpreter tongue
Here's another one grin

Bill
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Standard User uno
(knowledge is power) Sat 19-Oct-13 23:24:29
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You might want to get your ISP to fill this out, or you could also and Google might look at their data - as it appears other GeoIP databases are showing the correct information.

Matt

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Standard User XRaySpeX
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 20-Oct-13 06:54:39
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


[re: mr2gti] [link to this post]
 
In reply to a post by mr2gti:
It's really odd as her PC (Hard wired to Router) is connecting to .GR sites as default!
What do you mean by this?

Google results are for Greece? Facebook comes up as Facebook.GR?

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Standard User mr2gti
(member) Sun 20-Oct-13 10:37:35
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Re: Adverts - now in GREEK!


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Bit misleading that... no - what I meant it the domain is correct (.com) but the site defaults to the Greek version.

Does seem to be anything connected with Google too.

http://www.the-rx.co.uk/ad6.jpg

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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Sun 20-Oct-13 13:57:35
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Worth changing your dns servers.

208.67.222.222 (open dns)
or
8.8.8.8 (google)
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