Wisconthin
Dynamic IP - wrong geolocation
I first noticed, about a week ago, that my Yahoo! Weather defaulted to San Marcos, TX and local commercials on Pluto TV were now for Austin, TX businesses and no longer Houston. A couple of days later, with college hoops starting, I added Sling TV and there was FOX 7 - Austin. Their HQ is in San Marcos, just outside of Austin, but I live in Rosharon, just outside of Houston. I've been on chat and phone support several times and all they'll say is that the case was escalated. Two days ago, I filed an FCC complaint. Not that it already got to them but, this morning, FOX 7 was gone, replaced by FOX 26 and ABC 13, both Houston stations. However, my IP is still in San Marcos and I got an ad for an Austin coffee company on Pluto TV. Now, my Yahoo! Weather default is merely Texas and that vague location is about 10 degrees cooler than we are near the gulf coast. It's not a deal-breaker, but they do a poor job of matching dynamic IP addresses with the proper geolocation to their customers. I found a Reddit post from an Astound/Grande customer in CHICAGO, ILLINOIS who woke one morning last year to AUSTIN, TEXAS TV stations!!! The way they allocate dynamic IP addresses is like a pharmacy that stocks their shelves with unlabeled bottles of prescription drugs and they fill every kind of prescription with whichever bottle is reachable at the time!