Reliable IP GEO location service!

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Hi Warriors,

I hope things are going well with you and your family.

If I may pick your brain regarding IP GEO location services? What do you think is the most reliable?

We are using proxy IP addresses for a specific purpose in our business and we need to make sure the exact location of every proxy IP address.

When we purchased these proxy IP addresses from a certain company, they listed down the match locations for every IP address.

We are using proxifier by the way. The strange part is when we checked the proxy IP addresses on whatismyipaddress.com, it shows a different location.

So we contacted the support, and they told us that unfortunately there is nothing they can do in order to force whatsmyip to update their databases more often. The only reliable IP geo location service which is used by the majority of the services is maxmind.com.

We checked it on maxmind.com, and the location of every IP address matches the ones that company has listed.

So which one is more reliable, whatismyipaddress.com or maxmind.com?

I checked the IP addresses here too, whatismyip.com and they seem to match with maxmind.com results.

Right now, I am just a bit skeptical to proceed on our next step before we can get this sorted out 100%.

Any inputs you may provide will be highly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Louie Tugas
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  • Profile picture of the author brentb
    Are the locations even close? They should be close. If so, nothing you can do about that. IP addresses aren't exact geographic coordinates you know.

    ie If you thought it was NYC but turned out to be just over in NJ, that is reasonable.
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    • Profile picture of the author magiclouie
      Originally Posted by brentb View Post

      Are the locations even close? They should be close. If so, nothing you can do about that. IP addresses aren't exact geographic coordinates you know.

      ie If you thought it was NYC but turned out to be just over in NJ, that is reasonable.
      Thanks for your response.

      I am quite convinced that whatismyipaddress.com is not that really reliable.

      Maxmind.com and whatismyip.com have the same results.
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      • Profile picture of the author Go4DBest
        Originally Posted by magiclouie View Post

        Thanks for your response.

        I am quite convinced that whatismyipaddress.com is not that really reliable.

        Maxmind.com and whatismyip.com have the same results.
        So if Maxmind.com and whatismyip.com have the same results and they match with the company's listed locations, then go for it.

        More power to you!
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        • Profile picture of the author magiclouie
          Originally Posted by Go4DBest View Post

          So if Maxmind.com and whatismyip.com have the same results and they match with the company's listed locations, then go for it.

          More power to you!
          Yeah, we have decided to stick with the proxy IP's we have. So far no problems encountered...
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  • Profile picture of the author free1proxy
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