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Old 02-22-2007, 09:59 PM
I_C_ALL I_C_ALL is offline
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Default Re: how do they know I\'m an american?

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ISPs own certain ranges of IP addresses. The infomration is public through ARINs routing tables. You have to use a canadian VPN if you want your IP address to be canadian when you are in the US

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Basically, in English(or Canadian [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]) it means that your IP number(http://www.ipaddressworld.com/) is like your physical address online. It will tell you approximately where you are. If you are using a canadian Internet Service Provider or cable modem in Canada, you will have a Canadian IP address. From my understanding, this is how people/sites/gov't determine where you are.

Freakin is pretty knowlegable. You may want to check some previous posts [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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