Why do all US servers sometimes geolocate to Phoenix, AZ?

[Timberlake 0]

On two separate occasions in the past month I've selected servers in the US and found that they all geolocated to Phoenix, AZ when I checked my IP address on a few sites dedicated to that sort of thing. On the first occasion I tried five servers which were located in places like NJ, Virginia, Chicago, etc. and they were all listed as being located in Phoenix. The IP addresses were OK though. BTW, I am not anywhere near AZ.

 

Today it happened again with one server. I haven't checked any others.

 

Servers in Canada geolocated to where they were supposed to be.

[zhang888 1065]

The GeoIP database accuracy for U.S. is in a bad shape. The lack of IPv4 in ARIN made lots of companies announce their allocations which are registered

in a certain state, in other states as well. This is very common and nothing much can be done about it.

 

Practically I don't think there should be a huge usability impact by that, as long as the main country is U.S.

Do you have an example of a service that is discriminating users based on their state?

[User of AirVPN 46]

AirVPN doesn't currently have any servers in Virginia

[mehāniskākaravīrs935 24]

The GeoIP database accuracy for U.S. is in a bad shape. The lack of IPv4 in ARIN made lots of companies announce their allocations which are registered

in a certain state, in other states as well. This is very common and nothing much can be done about it.

 

Practically I don't think there should be a huge usability impact by that, as long as the main country is U.S.

Do you have an example of a service that is discriminating users based on their state?

In the United States several sports live streams exclude users from viewing local sports that are out of state.

 

Ex; If i am in Vermont i may not be able to watch a football game or baseball etc in California or any other state