1. GEO IP Databases
Here is explanation why you might have different GEO location than our socks proxy list.
As introduction, make sure you check proxy IP by connecting to it and going to GEO checker website. If you only copy IP address, but not connect - you might check location of our suppliers reverse servers - not the real proxy location. The real proxy IP is masked and you cannot see it until you connect to the proxy.
To see real IP of proxy, you have to connect to it.
To verify geolocation information you have to connect to the proxy and then visit any ip location page with the proxy enabled
How is IP geolocation determined?
First of all - the process of determining Location of proxy is done using so called "GEO IP Databases".
There are many databases, produced by different vendors.
The most popular are:
- MaxMind
- IP2Location
- DB-IP
It means, that if one site uses Maxmind DB and another one uses IP2Location DB - the resulting location of IP address MIGHT be different (usually it's not).
2. Example of GEO location mismatch
Let's check following IP address using different GEO IP databases: 45.79.11.119
As you can see, the results are different for each GEO IP database:
- IP2Location - USA, Georgia, Atlanta
- MaxMind - USA, Texas, Dallas
- DB-IP - USA, Texas, Dallas
- ipinfo.io - USA, New Jersey, Absecon
- EurekAPI - USA, Texas, Dallas
So if you're checking proxy and getting different location than we advertise on socks list, then it's because the site you're checking on is using different GEO IP database than ours.
We're using newest commercial MaxMind DB to perform geolocation lookups, it's the most popular database and it's used on most sites - but not all.