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michaels2408
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Dec 17, 2025

Microsoft Edge weirdness

Good morning,

I am running Windows 11:

Edition    Windows 11 Pro
Version    25H2
Installed on    ‎12/‎11/‎2024
OS build    26200.7462
Experience    Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.275.0

Device name    MSI
Processor    11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900H @ 2.50GHz (2.50 GHz)
Installed RAM    32.0 GB (31.7 GB usable)
Device ID    
Product ID    
System type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch    No pen or touch input is available for this display

For the most part I use Firefox or Google Chrome. But I am noticing some strange issues when using Microsoft Edge. This first starting when I would use Edge to sign into web sites I visited regularly. I started seeing messages that the website was detecting a sign in from another location, Canada. This started happening regularly. So I understand that IP traffic can be routed in weird ways, and looked at 'What is my IP address' website. This is were it gets weird. 

Here is a screen shot using Firefox: I have blurred the last two of the subnet for security.

This is correct, as I am using Starlink.

Microsoft edge shows:

I am not using a VPN server.  Previously this was reported as Canada, now it shows my IP address in Romania. 

I use Bitdefender for anti virus, and high complexity passwords on all my sites. I cannot figure out why Edge reports my IP address incorrectly and using VPN services. 

Is there someone that can help explain why this is happening? 

Regards,

Mike

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