Guild Wars 2

Every time i log into the game or the forums i get and email authentication from hobart, and I am in Perth, Western Australia. I can not do anything else because if i deny then it wont allow me to enter the game or forums. I am just scared that someone will hack me and i dont want to click the remember this address button. PLEASE HELP ME!

Apparently the IP will show for an area around you. When you get a strange site, check to see if the IP is the same as your IP. If it is, then that is you.

The first time I used the email authentication, I got the name of some strange city some distance away from me. I checked the IP then and it was the same. So, it’s not a firm physical address that the authentication sees , but an IP area. And it will pick some physical spot within that IP area at random to say it is your location because it can’t see your physical location, just an IP area.

Also, there seems to be more than just one IP, but several of them attached to your area. So the site you are coming from will seem to vary based on that.

You might want to contact your internet service provider bout this.

The location of the IP-adres is determined by a whois lookop.
This location is given by your internet service provider and is open for everyone. So to protect your privacy it is often a place nearby you, but not the same location. Most often that of the local datacenter for your provider. For example, mine is bout 100 miles from where I actually live.

So it isn’t as surprising and it could very well be you. But the distance is huge in your case so I would advise you to contact your provider. Explain that you are trying to play the game guildwars 2. Explain that it has a verification system on the IP-adress and that you want to make sure that the ip adress is yours and the location is ok. give them the ip adress and the name of the location and they can check it out for you.

You can check your ip by going to http://www.whatsmyip.org/

If the address displayed on the top of the page is the same as in the authentication email, then your fine as that is your IP address.

This is actually very common. In the US, many people who have AOL show up as coming from Reston VA, regardless of where they really live as that is where their main data centers are located. I live in Rhode Island, but my companies IP shows them as being in Kentucky which is several hundred miles away. As long as your IP as displayed on the page linked above and the IP in the authentication email are the same, you have nothing to worry about.