Firefox displays location information based upon what the Service Provider for the IP Address reports to the various services used by websites.

What does this service report? http://whatismyipaddress.com/

http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-basics

Tis is what my service provider sent me: The data for your IP address isn’t always translated right through the browser. Mine thinks I live in Corvallis sometimes.

Dennis

Budget Internet.

From: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 10:06 AM To: Help Desk <[email protected]> Cc: rgbonham <[email protected]> Subject: Port Townsend, WA,

Why do all of the web sites think that I live in Port Townsend, WA? Is there a problem?

RSVP

IMO, that email was sent by a person who isn't well versed in "how" their customers are actually connected to the internet

http://www.budget.net/signup Looks like that outfit is rather small and is probably buying services from larger internet providers, who then connect "budget.net" customers to the internet backbone, and "budget.net" is probably using IP addresses that are registered all over the northwest to other companies - not their own IP Addresses which could be "registered" to the communities where their customers are connecting to "budget.net". In many rural areas that is the only way people can get internet service any faster that the slowest dial-up speeds that the local telco can provide. The US federal government still hasn't embraced "universal service" for internet service like they did back in 1910 for US telephone service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_service

No, that isn't a "problem", just an inconvenience when you're not blocking ads that "thinks" their website knows where you actually are located when viewing their webpages.

I've answered similar questions here from users in northern Washington whose IP Address "identified" them as being in British Columbia. But southern Oregon to the north corner of Washington is a lot larger difference than I would expect to see.

I live outside Chicago and when Comcast is doing maintenance in this region I have seen my connection point shift to the Alexandria, VA area where there are cross-country and international 'backbone' internet connections and where Comcast has a "central office" of sorts.