Speed tests me in LA but am in SF - new ROM

[ldbobby]

Anyone else experiencing this? When I was on the old Sprint ROM, 2.17 was it... when running speed test, it showed the servers in San Francisco, CA as the closest ones. But after installing the new ROM, it shows Los Angeles, CA servers as closest. O_o

Any insight is much appreciated!

[catfewd]

I have the same problem, but I think it started before the newest sprint rom. I'm in Florida, but when i do the speed test on speedtest.net it shows my location all the way north in New Jersey... I'm on the DCD 3.0.1 rom and using wmwifirouter. One thing to note is my phone number is a manhattan number, i didn't change it when i moved, so maybe that has something to do with it.

[Nunim]

SpeedTest.net thinks I'm in OH while I'm actually in South Florida. I'd say it has something to do with Sprints routing, do a traceroute and find out.

[remlle]

the speed test websites have no idea where you actually are it all has to do with what IP address (or internet address ) your phone picks up. Sprint doesnt always give out an IP address that is close to you. the fact thats ome of you even are close to where you rreally are is pure luck.
Im in St.louis and every time I speed test from my home systems, phones or even my webservers it thinks im in a different place.

[Baffles]

Nothing to do with routing, it's where the IPs are allocated and what IP Geolocation data sprint set on the IPs. It's a guestimate, it's only remotely accurate for static connections (like cable or DSL).

[ldbobby]

Thanks for the replys guys. It all makes sense now!

[Nunim]

Originally Posted by Baffles

Nothing to do with routing, it's where the IPs are allocated and what IP Geolocation data sprint set on the IPs. It's a guestimate, it's only remotely accurate for static connections (like cable or DSL).

If that is true, I don't understand the trace route.

traceroute to 68.30.55.34 (68.30.55.34), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 3  130.152.181.129 (130.152.181.129)  2.809 ms  2.337 ms  2.195 ms
 4  67.30.130.65 (67.30.130.65)  2.069 ms  2.288 ms  2.063 ms
 5  so-0-1-0.mp1.Tustin1.Level3.net (4.68.114.1)  2.411 ms  2.509 ms  2.426 ms
 6  ae-0-0.bbr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (64.159.1.126)  3.302 ms  3.238 ms so-7-3-0.bbr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (209.247.8.113)  3.064 ms
 7  ae-3-89.edge2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.20.136)  3.468 ms ae-4-99.edge2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.20.200)  3.304 ms  3.464 ms
 8  sprint-level3-oc192.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (64.152.193.74)  3.679 ms  3.520 ms  3.574 ms
 9  sl-bb21-ana-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.95)  2.884 ms  2.787 ms  2.664 ms
10  sl-crs2-ana-0-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.61)  2.711 ms  2.669 ms  2.655 ms
11  sl-crs1-fw-0-4-0-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.145)  40.543 ms  40.667 ms  40.561 ms
12  sl-bb20-kc-13-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.57)  51.140 ms  51.100 ms  51.018 ms
13  sl-bb25-chi-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.109)  63.452 ms  63.045 ms  63.162 ms
14  sl-gw38-chi-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.118)  63.447 ms  62.948 ms  62.851 ms
15  sl-esri-170062-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.155.26)  62.463 ms  62.501 ms  62.731 ms
16  68.28.147.25 (68.28.147.25)  62.785 ms  62.730 ms  62.979 ms
17  68.28.151.25 (68.28.151.25)  62.953 ms  63.519 ms  62.913 ms
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * *

The last resolvable IP (68.28.151.25):

IP address location & IP address info:
IP address [?]: 68.28.151.25 [Copy][Whois]
IP address country: United States
IP address state: Michigan
IP address city: Allen
IP postcode: 49227
IP address latitude: 41.948700
IP address longitude: -84.766998
ISP of this IP [?]: Sprint PCS
Organization: Sprint PCS

I live in South Florida, so I don't understand the routing in that case. 18 hops, none of them are any close to me