AS204103 — commswest Comms West Limited

AS204103 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

COMMSWEST is operated by Comms West Limited.

What it's used for

• The address space carries broadband connectivity for the Scottish Highlands and Islands, with netnames UK-COMMS-20141006 and UK-COMMS-20240702 identifying the blocks.
• The AS announces 1280 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, maintaining 3 observed neighbours; this low neighbour count relative to the address inventory indicates an access network rather than a transit provider.
• Traffic consists of residential and business broadband subscribers in the West Highlands and Islands, including fixed wireless and mesh-based services.

Notable

• Registrants for both announced prefixes are Comms West Limited, matching the AS holder.
• Comms West Limited is a private limited company incorporated in the UK, providing broadband services to remote communities in the West Highlands and Islands.
• The inventory consists of two distinct IPv4 blocks, one allocated in 2014 and one in 2024, reflecting phased expansion of the network.

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

Announced prefixes

• 185.72.108.0/22
• 195.138.200.0/24
• 2a03:3ea0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS61231 Neos Networks Limited
• AS56595 Commsworld Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS61231 Neos Networks Limited
• AS56595 Commsworld Ltd

Routing security

• RPKI: 7 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 4 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 10 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BTGB-CUST, AS-CONVERGED-COMMUNICATION-SOLUTIONS, AS-FLUENCY, AS-HURRICANE, AS-SSET, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC.