Experiencing Inconsistent Geolocation Data: Why is My IP Address Showing Wrong Country Location?

Hey everyone,

I recently launched my web tool, What is My Country? - Find Your Current Country & IP Location, and while initial feedback has been great, I'm running into a consistent issue with geolocation data accuracy that users are reporting. It’s proving to be quite a headache.

The core problem is that users are frequently getting inconsistent and often inaccurate geolocation results for their IP addresses. Here are some of the specifics:

• Users are seeing their country reported incorrectly, sometimes even showing a different continent altogether.
• More surprisingly, the same user might get different results across multiple checks within a short period, which is really confusing.
• It doesn't seem to be just a few outliers using VPNs; it appears to affect a significant percentage of our general user base.

I've already tried a few things to mitigate this. I'm currently using multiple IP geolocation databases (like MaxMind and IPinfo.io) and have implemented some caching strategies to improve performance. I've also put in place some basic filtering for obvious VPN/proxy IPs, but that's not really addressing the main problem of general geolocation data inaccuracy.

I'm really hoping someone here might have some insights. What are the common causes for such widespread geolocation data inaccuracies? Are there any robust IP address lookup providers you'd specifically recommend that offer better accuracy, or any debugging strategies I might be overlooking? Anyone faced this before?