Guild Wars 2

Does anyone else find their login authentication emails come up with some really erratic locations?

Last night when I logged in the email had my location as Milton Keynes, England, which is near enough right. This morning I log in from the exact same computer on the same internet connection and it tells me I’m in Carmarthen, South Wales! Off the top of my head I’ve also had Edinburg, Birmingham and Guildford.

I’m sure all of these have been me, because the email is always sent a couple of seconds after I try to log in and get told to authenticate it, and I’ve never had emails at other times, but it still feels like I’m taking a risk by accepting it.

Can anyone tell me why this happens, or if other people get the same thing? Is it something to do with my ISP (BT), or Anets system or what?

If you are getting alot of authentication emails from different places it means
SOMEONE knows your password and logging in
but Anet is sending you the email to ask for your premission if this IP can login
Change your password right away
I had the same thing getting everyday email authentications from Israiel, Colombia and other places
So i changed my password right away
and i stopped recieving the authentication emails cuz the password was changed.
Change your password right away

I do get them from erratic locations – but always within the UK, and they are usually reasonably near enough to where I actually live (apart from one which was from way down south in England somewhere) that I just blame my ISP (BT). I also know these are all me as they are always just a few seconds after I try and log on.

Probably best change your password as suggested above to be safe but I think if they are within the UK and you are sure it is you then thats just ISP playing silly buggers!

ClaviculaNox.8762:

If you are getting alot of authentication emails from different places it means
SOMEONE knows your password and logging in
but Anet is sending you the email to ask for your premission if this IP can login
Change your password right away
I had the same thing getting everyday email authentications from Israiel, Colombia and other places
So i changed my password right away
and i stopped recieving the authentication emails cuz the password was changed.
Change your password right away

As I said I’m sure all these login attempts are me. I only ever get one email at a time and only when I’m trying to log in and have been asked to authenticate it. Also clicking the link lets me log in, if it was someone else I’d still be left waiting.

I’m just confused on why the locations it gives me are so wrong.

Danikat.8537:

As I said I’m sure all these login attempts are me. I only ever get one email at a time and only when I’m trying to log in and have been asked to authenticate it. Also clicking the link lets me log in, if it was someone else I’d still be left waiting.

I’m just confused on why the locations it gives me are so wrong.

Most likely your ISP provides you with dynamic IP address that changes every time you reconnect to internet (or once a day, depends on DHCP settings of your ISP). That also may explain why you get different locations on those access-mails, as it shows location of ISPs that those pools of addresses were registered to (and probably assimilated by your current ISP) and not yours personally.

Large ISP’s often have huge dynamic IP pools.

Years ago, those IP blocks were registered for specific areas, but now they are in a large pool for all coverage areas.