AS11698 — WIATEL

Network type: residential

AS11698 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,864 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

WIATEL is the network of the Western Iowa Telephone Association, a member-owned rural telephone cooperative serving small towns in western Iowa (trading as WIATEL). It is an eyeball access network: the addresses here terminate on subscribers, not on servers.

What it's used for

• Rural broadband, telephone and DSL/fibre access. RIS sees 4 IPv4 prefixes / 4,864 addresses plus one IPv6 /32 (2607:2e40::/32), behind 1 observed neighbour — one upstream, which is what a co-op of this size buys.
• The reverse DNS is the clearest evidence of what the space carries: movl-3-208-126-75-5.dsl.netins.net and movl-216-51-168-5.wiatel.net are per-address subscriber-style names, dsl. naming the access technology and movl reading as a town or exchange code. Per-line PTRs of that shape are an access pool, not hosting.

Notable

• All four prefixes register to the co-op itself under variations of its own name (WIATEL, Western Iowa Telephone Assn., Western Iowa Telephone). Same operator, same space, no third-party registrants — a real ISP running its own inventory.
• The netins.net domain on one block is worth reading carefully: that is Iowa Network Services / Aureon, the statewide carrier many Iowa independents buy aggregation from. A customer block wearing its upstream's rDNS is normal and does not make this network Aureon's — the registrant record still says Western Iowa Telephone.

Interesting

• The IPv6 /32 is a full RIR allocation. Small rural cooperatives are frequently ahead of much larger US operators on IPv6, and this one has had address space to deploy for years.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 45.78.128.0/20
• 173.215.66.0/24
• 208.126.75.0/24
• 216.51.168.0/24
• 2607:2e40::/32

Upstream networks

• AS5056 Aureon Network Services

Adjacent networks

• AS5056 Aureon Network Services