Guild Wars 2

Hello, i was wondering if anyone could give me any insight to this,

i tried logging in repeatedly and it said i was logging in from an unknown I.P. adress
so i thought what everone else would “omg ive been hacked”.

and in my email it said somone tried to log into my account from california, so i thought for sure i had been hacked.

so i started the process of the “ive been hacked process” and to my amazement 2 more emails showed up as i tried logging in, i thought this couldnt be as i live in kentucky.

Well i went ahead and gave this new I.P. access and i was able to log in and seen my account had been untouched.

If any smart tech guys can explian this to me or tell me if i need to change my password i would be grateful.

Most ölikely it was you who tried to log in all the time. Maybe your ISP just showed the wrong location. AS far as its not a different country at all i wouldnt be concerned.

thats what im thinking now aswell, i dont know why my ip would have changed though.

Its just your ISP flagging you as in a different state. Your ISP can route you through any number of exchanges. The major ones are the ones that are used to determine your location.

I live in North East Wales in the UK, but my ISP still flags me as logging on in london. A good 200+ miles away. This is due to the way my ISP handles my info.

Time Warner cable @ times reports their customers to be elsewhere other than their actual city

so more then likely my net service made some adjustments somewhere, thanks for the quick replies.

You should have an idea of what your IP address should look like.
If you get an email with an IP address and you aren’t confident if it is yours, or if you just want to check, you can go to sites like whatsmyip.org to have it shown to you if you don’t know where to look. Or, check in your router’s admin pages for a status display -- your IP should be there, as well.

In any case, never just approve any old IP.

synk.6907:

You should have an idea of what your IP address should look like.
If you get an email with an IP address and you aren’t confident if it is yours, or if you just want to check, you can go to sites like whatsmyip.org to have it shown to you if you don’t know where to look. Or, check in your router’s admin pages for a status display — your IP should be there, as well.

In any case, never just approve any old IP.

Either http://whatismyip.com (not .org) or http://ping.eu.
Router admin pages may show you useless or incorrect information regarding this issue if you local ISP provides you with IP from internal network (ip ranges 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255 or 10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255) instead of external IP address.