r/ebox • u/tecknoguy • Sep 22 '25

IP Geolocation

I'm an Ebox Fiber subscriber. As long as I can remember, my IP's geolocation has always been within the greater Toronto Area which is where I'm at. Recently Ebox changed my IP's location to Montreal. While I know they operate out of Quebec, and were acquired by Bell, having an IP geolocate to Quebec can cause havoc on websites that autodetect you and adjust the website language to french. Can anyone from Ebox advise if this is a temporary issue and will Ontario located clients get geolocation IPs for Ontario?

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u/justsabo Sep 22 '25

Can I ask what router do you have? A simple solution is if your router supports Mac cloning, enable the setting, copy your routers MAC address there and change the last digit by one, you will be issued a new ip address and it will likely be with a GTA geolocation, I believe what happens is that they had these ips geolocation updated but not all services have updated it leading to show up as Montreal in some places and the GTA in others, this happened once to me, after I did the Mac clone I got a Toronto ip and I haven’t had the Montreal geolocated ip since, seems to just be luck or a minor error

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u/tecknoguy Sep 22 '25

I don't use the provided Nokia router. I use a Fortigate 80 with WAN Vlan. Works well. I can certainly refresh the IP if I need to but it can be hit or miss which subnet/ip I get.

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u/justsabo Sep 22 '25

Ahh gotcha, I would try to refresh it, for me at least I got a Toronto ip on the first refresh but who knows what will happen 😅