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	Benson	2010-06-12 , 01:00
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

Okay, I may have a slight bit of more insight into this. Apparently the random 24.whatever IPs were indeed what google was picking me up as...

...even though the device was reporting its internal IP as 192 something. Whatever, I'm not an expert. (Though this is from both my home and another home. It picks me up as on another 24.randomnumbers ip, which is different from the previous one but no were close to the actual internal one.)

Ever hear of NAT?
192.168.0.0/16 is one of the private IP ranges, which should have been a clue.
whois.net is your friend -- likely if you'd seen the external IP was road runner (presumably your ISP?), you'd have guessed what was going on. Then again, maybe not...

In any case, that's neither remarkable, nor the issue.

It seems like whenever I log in, the same IP connects twice. One is 'me' to the best of my understanding, and it's labeled "Browser". The other is not me, but it connects at the exact same time with the same IP, and is labeled "Mobile". I suspect this... well, I don't suspect anything. I'm a newb. But my guess is for some reason, my N900 started using two sessions at once to connect to GMail.

Calling them "me" and "not me" is IMO counterproductive to understanding (and resolving) the problem. But that's a little beside the point...

You say there's "two sessions at once", but don't provide evidence. Given your knowledge level, I suspect you're assuming concurrence and haven't done anything to check, so I'm disregarding that assumption. (If I'm wrong, correct away.)

Two entries at approximately the same time sounds to me like an effect, not a cause, of your being redirected to the mobile site. I suspect that, if you leave it logged in for a few minutes and check, you'll see that only the mobile one actually remains alive -- if true, this confirms that it's an effect. (And, if pressed to identify one of them as "you", it would actually be the Mobile one.)

As for causes, I wonder if you and the others affected by this might be using a different bookmark/URL than the rest of us, and Google has changed handling on that URL? I use https://mail.google.com/, and still get the full version.

The only other possibility that comes to mind is UA sniffing; although that seems unlikely, it's posssible. Maybe one side of this changed it and forgot about it (happened to me once before

), or maybe it's different for some yet-unknown reason, so for completeness, check at http://whatsmyuseragent.com/. Mine is:

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20100318 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX-51 N900

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Last edited by Benson; 2010-06-12 at 01:04.

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