At today morning, when I open my profile, the value displayed at location position is "West Bengal". This is right, because I am from the state West Bengal, India. When I go to View Career Profile, at the bottom it shows my location as "Maharashtra, India". But, some days ago I saw it as mine. Why does it shows this and why not the actual as previous?
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Jump to PostI'm not sure. For one thing, the "Location" from your profile is whatever you set when you edited your profile. I think that another method might be used, based on IP address location. I remember that for a long while it used to show somewhere (can't remember where) that I …
Jump to PostCareer profiles take the location from the IP address. You cannot edit this in your profile. The location changed because you logged onto DaniWeb from a different location (home/work/etc).
Jump to PostIn that case, as Mike suggested, your ISP in India simply hit a different router each time.
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