speedtest vs geo-coding IP info

Wed Oct 28 22:56:25 UTC 2015

Agreed. If you have more than a /29, it needs to be SWIPed to you regardless. Then you have a little more authority with getting GeoIP changes made. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest Internet Exchange 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> 
To: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell at hathcock.org> 
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 5:40:59 PM 
Subject: Re: speedtest vs geo-coding IP info 

Your block should be SWIP'ed irrelevant of geolocation/Speedtest server/etc 
if it's sizable. 

Josh Luthman 
Office: 937-552-2340 
Direct: 937-552-2343 
1100 Wayne St 
Suite 1337 
Troy, OH 45373 

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell at hathcock.org> 
wrote: 

> All: 
> 
> 
> 
> Very helpful. Another also helped me track down that Ookla uses 
> MaxMind.com for their GeoIP data. I was able to submit a GeoIP location 
> correction request. A guy at speedtest.net suggested that MaxMind may 
> pay me no mind because my upstream ISP may need to submit the request. 
> That makes perfect sense to me, but it doesn’t hurt to try I hope. 
> 
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> 
> Thanks NANOG! You’re the best! 
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> 
> -L 
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2015 4:18 PM 
> *To:* Lorell Hathcock <lorell at hathcock.org> 
> *Cc:* NANOG list <nanog at nanog.org> 
> *Subject:* Re: speedtest vs geo-coding IP info 
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> 
> Best resource: http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP 
> 
> Been down for a good long time now 
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> 
> This is the only copy I know of it: 
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> http://web.archive.org/web/20130122055317/http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP 
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20130122055317/http:/nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP> 
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> 
> Josh Luthman 
> Office: 937-552-2340 
> Direct: 937-552-2343 
> 1100 Wayne St 
> Suite 1337 
> Troy, OH 45373 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:06 PM, <lorell at hathcock.org> wrote: 
> 
> Legions of NANOG: 
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> 
> 
> Here's an interesting problem. 
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> 
> My customers are running speedtests from Ookla's speedtest.net site. The 
> default site is in Kansas and not in Texas where we receive our internet 
> connection. 
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> 
> Questions: 
> 
> 1. How do I go about viewing the geo-coded data that accompanies my 
> IP 
> addresses? This is obviously a database that is kept for geo-coding 
> purposes. The whois info for the block in question traces back to a 
> superblock formerly owned by PSINet, Inc and has a Washington, DC address. 
> I conclude that the geo-coding used by speedtest.net is not from the whois 
> database. 
> 
> 2. If I pestered my carrier to SWIP the IP address block to me (as 
> they should have?) would that help me solve my problem? 
> 
> 3. Is there anything else I need to be thinking of that would help me 
> have better control of my geo-coding info? Are there third-party self sign 
> up/volunteer database which house geo-coding info? 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance! 
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> 
> Sincerely, 
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> 
> 
> Lorell Hathcock 
> 
> Chief Technology Officer 
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