Steam Ip location is wrong

[Lefty]

I live in another city and its putting me in the wrong place. Whenever I log into steam or check something through the authenticator it tells me do I want to allow this from a wrong location. I know its me thought, but the ip address for my pc or wherever steam thinks I am is wrong. any fixes

[Iceira]

Steam has nothing to do with your ip-adr. thats your ISP.

your ISP might have bought ip pool scope range from diffrent pool and region, and that why you have other or VPN or Domain server that give you diffrent scope or assigned ip-adr on wan line.


steam cant help even if they could try that for you, only your ISP has the knowledge to act and do anything about it, or correct own mistake with not move scope range to own region.


ps.
and i dobt steam even want to part of it or go on market as ISP ever, because then people will say fix your network steam. and i doubt they ever want to be part of that side, ( as a ISP )

[Brian9824]

IP's are not accurate for locating a physical address, its a VERY rough approximation and not reliable.

[Hapxier]

The best an IP can do is place you at the nearest server hub location, which is never going to be your exact address. This is usually, but not always, going to located in your city of residence. The more important thing here is that it keeps showing you the same location- as long as that's consistent, you can be fairly certain that you're the one it's referencing.

[waderthur]

Turn off your VPN