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IP addresses in Singapore

What a geolocation country of Singapore tends to mean, and which networks sit behind it.

Singapore is an APNIC economy, and it is a hosting hub out of proportion to its population. Singtel AS7473, StarHub AS4657, and M1 AS4773 are the household and mobile networks. A Singapore country code on a datacenter or VPN ASN is much more often a server in a Singapore facility, or a cloud region, than a person on a StarHub line. Treat the ASN as the sentence and the country as the adjective.

Neighbourhood-level geolocation inside Singapore is not a meaningful product. The island is small, the databases are coarse, and a “Singapore” result that is right at country level has almost no street value. IPv6 availability depends on the retail ISP and the plan. A VPN exit that claims Singapore tells you where the server is, not where the user is.

The regional registry is APNIC. What is my IP address · IP location wrong?

Further reading: Cloudflare Radar.

Questions

What does an IP country of Singapore mean?

A database placed the address in Singapore. That is often true and still unhelpful: the country is small, and a large share of “Singapore” addresses are hosting, VPNs, and cloud regions rather than a person on the island.

Which ISPs serve households in Singapore?

Singtel AS7473, StarHub AS4657, and M1 AS4773 are the main retail networks. A hosting ASN with a Singapore country code is a different population.