AS11904 — ATOM-MI-53-198
Network type: residential
AS11904 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 19,456 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
ATOM-MI-53-198 is AcenTek, a rural telephone and broadband cooperative descended from Ace Telephone of Houston, Minnesota, which serves subscribers across parts of Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan. The handle decodes the way most handles in this range do — as an internal label, here the company's Michigan operating arm, and ARIN registers the ASN to an address in Mesick, Michigan.
What it's used for
This is an eyeball access network. RIS sees 32 IPv4 prefixes carrying 19,456 addresses, 3 IPv6 prefixes, and only 6 observed neighbours — a large-ish address pool reached through very few upstreams, which is the subscriber-ISP shape rather than the transit-carrier one (a wholesale carrier would show peers by the hundred). The announcements deaggregate heavily inside a few parent blocks (24.204.160.0/19, 107.155.176.0/20, 209.25.240.0/20), all registered to AcenTek itself.
The reverse DNS confirms what the space carries: names like ip-107-155-176-5-static.hsip.as19531.net, host5.maxim.net and static-242-005.allcom.net are subscriber-facing static-IP naming from the company and from networks it absorbed. "hsip" is simply high-speed internet product naming — an access technology label, not a customer type. Multiple rDNS suffixes under one origin AS is exactly what a decades-long history of buying small local telephone companies leaves behind.
Notable
The ASN dates to 1999 and the underlying business to a 1950s farmer-founded rural telephone co-op; the fragmented rDNS is the visible sediment of its acquisitions.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 24.204.160.0/19
- 104.192.148.0/22
- 107.155.176.0/20
- 198.167.240.0/21
- 209.25.240.0/20
- 2604:ae80:1000::/36
- 2604:ae80:a100::/40
Upstream networks
Downstream networks
Adjacent networks
- AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
- AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
- AS54119 WhiteSky Communications, LLC.
- AS397300 Crystal Enterprises, Inc
- AS40599 Gentex Corporation
Internet exchanges
- Detroit Internet Exchange — Detroit, United States
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