Title: IP Location Discrepancy
Last modified: April 29, 2018

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# IP Location Discrepancy

 *  Resolved [iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iframe/)
 * (@iframe)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-location-discrepancy/)
 * Hello.
    Thanks for your amazing plugin. Yet I need to address something. Got 
   an email: “A non-admin user with username “xxx” signed in to your WordPress site.”“
   User location: United States”
 * That’s too far from that user’s homeland so I had to check it out.
    The official
   whois reads that IP as the Netherlands, Wordfence’s lookup tool gives the same
   location, the Netherlands. In other words, the margin of error is a half the 
   world wide. 🙁 (pun intended)
 * Dear Wordfence team, it seems you use a different and faulty tool in the first
   place.
 * Please look into the matter.
 * Just in case, User IP: 185.10.235.130
 * Thank you.

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 *  [wfyann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfyann/)
 * (@wfyann)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-location-discrepancy/#post-10234128)
 * Hi [@iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iframe/),
 * Can you confirm that the Live Traffic feed shows only one connection for that
   user around that time?
 *  Thread Starter [iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iframe/)
 * (@iframe)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-location-discrepancy/#post-10235207)
 * Hi, thank you for your support.
    That’s a busy multisite and Live Traffic is 
   disabled. I have checked Wordfence Logins table in the database, that user logged
   in once on April 28, the previous login was a few days before.
 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-location-discrepancy/#post-10313956)
 * Hi [@iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iframe/)!
 * I did a lookup on this IP and can confirm that it’s currently seen as Netherlands
   by the Wordfence plugin. I can’t check that retroactively though unfortunately.
   Have you see this issue again lately?
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iframe/)
 * (@iframe)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-location-discrepancy/#post-10318621)
 * Hello [@wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/).
    Thanks for taking
   care. No, it didn’t happen again, the user has returned home 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [iframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iframe/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-location-discrepancy/#post-10318621)
 * Status: resolved