Posted by:
ificouldhietokolob
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Date: January 13, 2017 11:45AM
IP addresses are able to be looked up to a specific location, down to exact street addresses, or longitude/latitude coordinates accurate down to fractions of a second of arc.
However, they may not be *right.*
If you're using cable internet, for example, your IP address that's visible to the outside world varies from day to day, even hour to hour. That's because it comes from a pool of IP addresses that your internet provider keeps, and dynamically dishes out as its users get on/off the internet. That way they don't have to reserve one IP address for every one of their users, because they're not all on-line at the same time. You share a pool.
And those IP addresses all "look up" to one of the service provider's server locations, not to your house. So if everyone in your neighborhood has Cox cable internet, all of them would appear to have a "location" of the nearest Cox server farm, not any of their homes.
If your hosting company uses static IP addresses, then the situation is different...but hardly any do.
This might help:
https://www.iplocation.net/