diff --git a/iplookup/tests/fixtures/GeoIP2-City-Test.mmdb b/iplookup/tests/fixtures/GeoIP2-City-Test.mmdb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c304794f62f
Binary files /dev/null and b/iplookup/tests/fixtures/GeoIP2-City-Test.mmdb differ
diff --git a/iplookup/tests/fixtures/README.txt b/iplookup/tests/fixtures/README.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f12faa2ac00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/iplookup/tests/fixtures/README.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+GeoIP2-City-Test.mmdb:
+    Copyright: maxmind (github.com/maxmind)
+
+    https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB/blob/master/test-data/GeoIP2-City-Test.mmdb
+
+    Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
+
+    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
+
+    No changes have been made to this file.
diff --git a/iplookup/tests/geoip_test.php b/iplookup/tests/geoip_test.php
index b65be599621..d553bd8938a 100644
--- a/iplookup/tests/geoip_test.php
+++ b/iplookup/tests/geoip_test.php
@@ -36,56 +36,15 @@ require_once("{$CFG->dirroot}/iplookup/lib.php");
  */
 class core_iplookup_geoip_testcase extends advanced_testcase {
     public function setUp() {
-        if (!PHPUNIT_LONGTEST) {
-            // These tests are intensive and required downloads.
-            $this->markTestSkipped('PHPUNIT_LONGTEST is not defined');
-        }
-
         $this->resetAfterTest();
     }
 
-
     /**
      * Setup the GeoIP2File system.
      */
     public function setup_geoip2file() {
         global $CFG;
-
-        // Store the file somewhere where it won't be wiped out..
-        $gzfile = "$CFG->dataroot/phpunit/geoip/GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz";
-        check_dir_exists(dirname($gzfile));
-        if (file_exists($gzfile) and (filemtime($gzfile) < time() - 60*60*24*30)) {
-            // Delete file if older than 1 month.
-            unlink($gzfile);
-        }
-
-        if (!file_exists($gzfile)) {
-            download_file_content('http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz',
-                null, null, false, 300, 20, false, $gzfile);
-        }
-
-        $this->assertTrue(file_exists($gzfile));
-
-        $geoipfile = str_replace('.gz', '', $gzfile);
-
-        // Open our files (in binary mode).
-        $file = gzopen($gzfile, 'rb');
-        $geoipfilebuf = fopen($geoipfile, 'wb');
-
-        // Keep repeating until the end of the input file.
-        while (!gzeof($file)) {
-            // Read buffer-size bytes.
-            // Both fwrite and gzread and binary-safe.
-            fwrite($geoipfilebuf, gzread($file, 4096));
-        }
-
-        // Files are done, close files.
-        fclose($geoipfilebuf);
-        gzclose($file);
-
-        $this->assertTrue(file_exists($geoipfile));
-
-        $CFG->geoip2file = $geoipfile;
+        $CFG->geoip2file = "$CFG->dirroot/iplookup/tests/fixtures/GeoIP2-City-Test.mmdb";
     }
 
     /**
@@ -121,9 +80,8 @@ class core_iplookup_geoip_testcase extends advanced_testcase {
      */
     public function ip_provider() {
         return [
-            'IPv4: Sample suggested by maxmind themselves' => ['24.24.24.24'],
-            'IPv4: github.com' => ['192.30.255.112'],
-            'IPv6: UCLA' => ['2607:f010:3fe:fff1::ff:fe00:25'],
+            'IPv4: IPV4 test' => ['81.2.69.142'],
+            'IPv6: IPV6 test' => ['2001:252:1::1:1:1'],
         ];
     }
 }
diff --git a/lib/maxmind/readme_moodle.txt b/lib/maxmind/readme_moodle.txt
index 8b90c90685a..dd8e5947857 100644
--- a/lib/maxmind/readme_moodle.txt
+++ b/lib/maxmind/readme_moodle.txt
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ unzip v1.4.1.zip
 mv GeoIP2-php-2.9.0/src/ /path/to/moodle/lib/maxmind/GeoIp2/
 mv MaxMind-DB-Reader-php-1.4.1/src/MaxMind/ /path/to/moodle/lib/maxmind/MaxMind/
 
-4) Run unit tests on iplookup/tests/geoip_test.php with PHPUNIT_LONGTEST defined.
+4) Run unit tests on iplookup/tests/geoip_test.php.