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W10 Tweaker said:
BTW, when I checked MaxMind, your location was shown as Sanford, North Carolina, United States, North America
I'm not sure how you got my IP address to test with MaxMind? I tried to remove my IP from the postings here. If you used 47.132.80.1, that's close but not mine (last two octets are different). I don't know why this address showed up in the early part of the tracert I did. Doesn't matter, Sanford is close enough for GeoLocator results. I usually get a response of Lillington, NC. from MaxMind (also close but not very).
You are trying to help me so I don't want to get into a disagreement with you but my best understanding is that all ISP's distribute IP addresses via DHCP except when dealing with larger companies. My router says that my IP was acquired via DHCP. ISP's do issue long leases on the DHCP addresses so you don't get a new one if you simply don't put your cable modem online for a few weeks. I believe it would be an administrative nightmare to issue static IP's to hundreds of thousands of customers. Either way, it does not apply to this scenario other than that my ISP refused to let me have a new IP for my test purposes.
I cannot answer your question about what my IP address was when this problem started (a few years ago). I've been so busy trying to make sure I didn't publish my IP online and I never wrote down the original one from the beginning. I can only say that my memory is not as good as it used to be but my current IP address does seem to have changed and the change seems to have occurred since or about when I bought my new router. I cannot guarantee it though.
I have not ordered anything from Canada or other International companies or installed any software that thinks I'm registering from Canada recently so I am not yet going to close this issue. I think I just remembered a company which is based in Canada which showed my "shopping cart" currency in Canadian funds. I'll give it a try and see if it is in US currency. If it is, I will close this issue, otherwise I will wait at least until I have ordered something from the UK or China to see what currency they quote.