AS206347 — RANSTON-AS-1 Wessex Internet Limited

Network type: residential

AS206347 announces 12 IPv4 prefixes covering 26,880 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle RANSTON-AS-1 is held by Wessex Internet Limited.

What it's used for

• The address space carries residential and business internet access, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as customer-wessexinternet.com and customer-ranston.net, alongside infrastructure names like wessexinternet.net.
• The network announces 26,880 IPv4 addresses across 12 prefixes and maintains 85 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a regional access provider aggregating traffic from multiple upstreams.
• Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber eyeballs for broadband, fibre, and wireless 4G services provided to customers in the United Kingdom.

Notable

• Registrants largely align with the announcer, with most prefixes registered to Wessex Internet Limited; however, the 149.100.96.0/19 block is registered to Cogent Communications, LLC, and 194.49.12.0/22 is registered to James Randolf Gibson Fleming trading as Ranston Farms.
• The address inventory is a mix of legacy and acquired space, including blocks registered under the "Ranston" name, reflecting the operator's historical identity or mergers.

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

Announced prefixes

• 37.48.225.0/24
• 37.48.226.0/23
• 37.48.228.0/24
• 37.48.231.0/24
• 138.124.160.0/20
• 149.100.96.0/19
• 149.107.0.0/19
• 185.32.92.0/22
• 185.67.232.0/22
• 185.102.132.0/22
• 185.193.168.0/22
• 194.49.12.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS61124 Marston's Telecoms Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS6797 GlobalConnect AB
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS29075 IELO-LIAZO SERVICES SAS

Downstream networks

• AS196745 Datacenta Hosting Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS196745 Datacenta Hosting Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS61124 Marston's Telecoms Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS6797 GlobalConnect AB
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS29075 IELO-LIAZO SERVICES SAS

Routing security

• RPKI: 29 valid, 0 invalid and 5 not-found announcements; 12 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 97% of announcements registered; 37 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-LONAP-CONNECTED, AS-LONAP-MLP, AS-MANDA-LINX-PEERS-V4, AS-RANSTON.

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• London Network Access Point — London, United Kingdom