My geo-targeting is drunk?

hey folks, so i've got this super simple web tool, 'what is my city name', it's supposed to be just that, you know? you visit, it tells you your city. no rocket science involved, or so i thought. but lately, my geo-targeting seems to be on a permanent bender. i'm sitting here in sunny florida, and sometimes my own tool thinks i've suddenly relocated to, like, alaska. it's kinda hilarious, but mostly just frustrating for something that should be so straightforward. i've swapped out a few ip-to-location apis already, tried some free ones, even coughed up for a couple of paid services, thinking 'aha! premium data!' nope. still getting weird results. also did the usual checks for caching issues, thinking maybe some old data was sticking around. even briefly poked around browser settings and user-agent stuff, wondering if there were some sneaky shenanigans going on there. my own location often bounces around between cities in the same state, which is annoying enough, but then sometimes it'll just yeet me across the country to a wildly different state entirely. had a friend test it from their place, and it told them they were in a city 500 miles away. vpn users? oh, they're a whole other level of chaos, which i kinda expect given how vpns work, but it just adds to the overall 'what the heck is going on?' vibe. it feels like my ip geolocation is playing a cruel joke on me. i'm starting to suspect it's something beyond just the api quality. maybe some network-level stuff i'm not considering, or how browsers actually handle location requests in certain scenarios, or even tricky isp routing that makes accurate ip geolocation a nightmare. it's driving me nuts trying to pinpoint the actual source of the problem. so, any gurus out there with tips for more accurate ip geolocation, especially for a simple tool like 'what is my city name'? what am i missing for reliable geo-targeting?