AS46231 — WATCHCOMM-IN - Watch Communications

Network type: residential

AS46231 announces 24 IPv4 prefixes covering 87,552 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

WATCHCOMM-IN is held by Watch Communications.

What it's used for

• The address space carries cable and DSL subscriber traffic, evidenced by netnames like WATCHCOMM-EAST-OH-3 and WATCH-WCOIL-BLK, and reverse DNS entries such as pm5-47.kenton.da.wcoil.com and clientdns1.watchcomm.net.
• The AS announces 87,552 IPv4 addresses across 24 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 11 observed neighbours; this high address-to-neighbour ratio indicates an access network rather than a transit provider.
• Traffic consists of residential and small business broadband users in Ohio and surrounding regions, served via fixed wireless and fiber infrastructure.

Notable

• All registrants in the RDAP sample are listed as Watch Communications, consistent with the AS holder.
• The address inventory is subdivided into numerous /19, /20, and smaller blocks, reflecting site-by-site segmentation for different service areas.
• Reverse DNS includes references to omnicity.net and wcoil.com, indicating historical or operational ties to Omnicity, Inc, which is identified in secondary sources as an alternate name for Watch Communications.

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

Announced prefixes

• 64.5.160.0/19
• 65.17.128.0/19
• 66.118.112.0/20
• 66.252.80.0/20
• 68.142.160.0/20
• 68.169.112.0/20
• 69.88.192.0/19
• 69.89.176.0/22
• 69.89.180.0/23
• 69.89.183.0/24
• 69.89.184.0/21
• 72.42.192.0/19
• 74.126.32.0/20
• 74.126.240.0/20
• 98.143.48.0/20
• 98.158.64.0/20
• 192.34.120.0/21
• 198.74.76.0/22
• 198.89.240.0/20
• 198.162.192.0/20
• 205.185.0.0/21
• 205.185.13.0/24
• 205.185.14.0/23
• 216.23.240.0/20
• 2605:2300::/32
• 2606:9d00::/32
• 2607:f340::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS20205 Amplex Electric, Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS

Downstream networks

• AS33725 Watch Communications
• AS11925 Ruesch Consulting, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS33725 Watch Communications
• AS20205 Amplex Electric, Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS11925 Ruesch Consulting, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 31 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 74% of announcements registered; 38 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-63529-AS-IMPORT-AS6939, AS-HURRICANE, AS-METRO, AS-PNAPCHG, AS-WATCH-IFN, AS-XO-B, AS11473:AS-CONE, AS11473:AS-CONE, AS11925:AS-PEERS, AS13681:AS-INDYPEERS, AS14333:AS-NETFLIXCACHE, AS14333:AS-PEERS, AS14640:AS-CONE, AS14640:AS-CONE, AS23432:AS-ALL, AS33725:AS-CONE, AS33725:AS-CONE, AS40022:AS-ALL, AS401231:AS-CONE, AS46231:AS-ALL, AS46231:AS-CONE.

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago — Chicago, United States
• Ohio IX — Columbus, United States
• FD-IX - Indianapolis — Indianapolis, United States