Steam Login Location is 400Miles away

[Karma]

Used the QR code log in feature from my phone and it says im in Edinburgh Scotland?
Is this just a server/IP thing or what?

[Lithurge]

Nothing to worry about. IP addresses are far from accurate. Mine says I'm approximately 300 miles from where I actually live.

[B@kz]

tnx

[crunchyfrog]

If you're in the UK it's how our IP addresses work. It entirely depends on your ISP.

If you're on a major one that runs loads of centres you may find your IP location is somwhere closer.

But if you're like me and has a non-mainstream ISP (Aquiss) then you'll find it's anywhere in the country. Mine tends to vary between Essex and Manchester and yet I live in Linconshire so it's ALWAYS hundreds of miles out.

[ KARR™]

Also depends WHO you ask about the IP.

Lookup on a few pages on my IP is between 0 (Worcester), 30 (Birmingham), 44 (Kington) and 143 (Boston). Some know the ISP, some see the parent company, others have no idea.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by  KARR™:

Also depends WHO you ask about the IP.

Lookup on a few pages on my IP is between 0 (Worcester), 30 (Birmingham), 44 (Kington) and 143 (Boston). Some know the ISP, some see the parent company, others have no idea.

Wow wasn't aware that Boston had a node.

[metamec]

Your Steam account just wanted to get a taste of haggis and bagpipes. You only need to worry if you login one day to find your entire profile awash with tartan and dozens of trading requests from some weirdo called Nessie.

[Satoru]

This can highly dpeend on how your ISP works and its exit nodes to the internet. If you live in a rural area, they frequently agreggate all traffic and push it out a single node so you can look like you come from an entirely different region simply because that's the main internet node for your area.

[Kargor]

If you think you have reason to be concerned, log into your router and conpare IP addresses.

[crunchyfrog]

Yeah but Boston has a NODE!

This is cause for celebration as Boston doesn't have ANYTHING. Lincolnshire is boring as ♥♥♥♥, and even hills don't hang around. It's flat and dull.

We now have a NODE!

[N3tRunn3r]

In Steam settings you can change your "download and data location". This restarts Steam.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by N3tRunn3r:

In Steam settings you can change your "download and data location". This restarts Steam.

That's not what they're talking about.

We're not talking about Steam's download location but your node placement from your ISP.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by N3tRunn3r:

In Steam settings you can change your "download and data location". This restarts Steam.

Go ahead and see if that does anything here...

Help > Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account >>> Recent Login History

https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/SteamLoginHistory

[Brujeira]

Ugh, you think that's bad? I always trot out this example whenever this kind of stuff comes up.

A few years ago I was sitting in my favourite cinema in Liverpool, UK. I made a Facebook post about what I was about to watch and checked in at the location itself. Checked my login history a couple of days later - it said that I'd logged in from New York. It was definitely my login as the date and time matched. Only about 3,300 miles out.

I understand the technical reasons why it happened but I won't bore you with them. It's just part of how the Internet works.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Brujeira:

Ugh, you think that's bad? I always trot out this example whenever this kind of stuff comes up.

A few years ago I was sitting in my favourite cinema in Liverpool, UK. I made a Facebook post about what I was about to watch and checked in at the location itself. Checked my login history a couple of days later - it said that I'd logged in from New York. It was definitely my login as the date and time matched. Only about 3,300 miles out.

I understand the technical reasons why it happened but I won't bore you with them. It's just part of how the Internet works.

Yup, I've had several occasions where I've made posts a few minutes apart, whilst sat in bed in boring Spalding, Lincolnshire.

One claims to be from Manchester, the other from Basingstoke.

[Brujeira]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Yup, I've had several occasions where I've made posts a few minutes apart, whilst sat in bed in boring Spalding, Lincolnshire.

One claims to be from Manchester, the other from Basingstoke.

Figures. I'm in St Helens, Merseyside on a BT connection. Might as well toss a coin to see what location I normally get - either it's more or less right or it says I'm logging in from Wembley.