Steam Login History

[AustrAlien2010]

That's weird. For about a month, my Steam login history changed to another location, but I am not at that location. I just restarted my computer, and it does show that restart in the login history, but it logs another location than where I am actually at.

While for example Google, still shows me my real location, where I am actually at.

If you click here, you can see what I mean, and you can see this information for your own client.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/SteamLoginHistory

It should show you a general location where you are at, but my location changed, even though I did not relocated, and I am not actually at that location where the login history says that I am, even though it still shows the restart, so it is definitely creating a log from my computer restarting.


Have you ever seen that?

[Brimzel]

Since Nov 24th, it's been selecting a nearby island as the place of login instead of my city. It's a bit odd, yeah.

[Crazy Tiger]

That link always will go to your own profile.

Geolocation isn't precise, it depends on how the ISP handles the IP-addresses it distributes. My ISP changed hubs for regions 1,5 year ago, which ended up changing my location in the login history. Both locations it uses (pre and after change) are over 50km away from where I actually live.

[Mad Scientist]

GeoIP can show the general area you or your ISP is in. I'd only worry if it's fairly out of range or showing another country.

Don't trust Google (in general) . There's a reason why people recommend things like DuckDuckGo and services that don't use Google.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It gets better on your phone. Mine kept on showing I logged in from a city ~350 miles away in another state. The carrier was to blame for that one.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It gets better on your phone. Mine kept on showing I logged in from a city ~350 miles away in another state. The carrier was to blame for that one.

When I was on holiday in Denmark, my web logins on the phone still showed my location in my own country which was about 800km away.

[Kon - Alfyus]

Location is not really precise from PC. It depends on a lot of things.
You better try to login with your phone

[AustrAlien2010]

I also think it is because of that. I cannot think of any other reason.

[Satoru]

If you log in via any kind of public wifi or your phone, you geo-location shows where your EXIT point is from the network.

As an example if you were in an Apple Store, and connected to the wifi, you'd 'look' like you were coming from California. Because that's where all of Apple's stores wifi exits from. If you're on Starbucks wifi you coudl end up literally anywhere.

With mobile carriers depending on your provider your location could range from 'relatively accurate' to 'ok you're basically somewhere in the country' especially for MVNO's.

Though if you see a login from Russia...... yeaaaaahhhhh you might wanna change your password