AS6621 — HNS-DIRECPC

Network type: residential

AS6621 announces 159 IPv4 prefixes covering 550,912 addresses and 25 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The satellite broadband network of Hughes Network Systems, LLC, registered under the handle HNS-DIRECPC. The handle names DirecPC, the early Hughes consumer satellite internet product whose descendants ship today as HughesNet.

What it's used for

• Addressing for satellite internet subscribers. Reverse DNS across its space resolves to host-….hnremote.net, the naming used for HughesNet remote terminals, which is about as clear a subscriber signal as rDNS gets.
• The AS announces several hundred IPv4 prefixes plus a large IPv6 footprint, covering hundreds of thousands of addresses.

Notable

• This is residential space with an unusual physical layer. Users are typically in rural and remote areas where terrestrial broadband is unavailable, so addresses here often geolocate poorly: the address is tied to a satellite gateway, not to the customer's house.
• Latency on this network is dominated by the geostationary hop, and traffic is commonly shaped by the accelerator and proxy equipment in the Hughes gateways.

Interesting

• The DIRECPC in the handle is a fossil from the mid-1990s. The ASN registration dates from that era, and the product name changed repeatedly, but the handle never did.

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

Announced prefixes

• 65.88.96.0/20
• 66.82.0.0/20
• 66.82.16.0/22
• 66.82.20.0/23
• 66.82.22.0/24
• 66.82.24.0/21
• 66.82.32.0/19
• 66.82.64.0/19
• 66.82.96.0/20
• 66.82.112.0/21
• 66.82.120.0/22
• 66.82.125.0/24
• 66.82.126.0/23
• 66.82.128.0/24
• 66.82.130.0/23
• 66.82.132.0/22
• 66.82.136.0/22
• 66.82.140.0/23
• 66.82.142.0/24
• 66.82.144.0/22
• 66.82.148.0/23
• 66.82.151.0/24
• 66.82.160.0/19
• 66.82.192.0/19
• 66.82.224.0/22
• 66.82.228.0/23
• 66.82.233.0/24
• 66.82.234.0/23
• 66.82.238.0/23
• 66.82.240.0/23
• 66.82.243.0/24
• 66.82.245.0/24
• 66.82.246.0/23
• 66.82.248.0/21
• 67.44.20.0/22
• 67.44.28.0/22
• 67.44.32.0/20
• 67.44.52.0/22
• 67.44.60.0/22
• 67.44.160.0/19
• 67.44.192.0/18
• 67.45.0.0/20
• 67.45.32.0/19
• 67.45.64.0/20
• 67.45.96.0/19
• 67.45.160.0/19
• 67.45.192.0/20
• 67.46.0.0/20
• 67.46.48.0/20
• 67.46.64.0/20
• 67.46.112.0/20
• 67.46.144.0/20
• 67.46.160.0/20
• 67.46.192.0/19
• 67.46.224.0/20
• 67.47.0.0/20
• 67.47.16.0/23
• 67.47.18.0/24
• 67.47.23.0/24
• 67.47.24.0/21
• 67.47.32.0/19
• 67.47.80.0/20
• 67.47.192.0/20
• 67.47.224.0/20
• 67.142.0.0/19
• 67.142.100.0/22
• 67.142.104.0/21
• 67.142.112.0/20
• 67.142.128.0/20
• 67.142.144.0/21
• 67.142.152.0/22
• 67.142.157.0/24
• 67.142.158.0/23
• 67.142.160.0/19
• 67.142.193.0/24
• 67.142.194.0/23
• 67.142.196.0/22
• 67.142.200.0/23
• 67.142.202.0/24
• 67.142.206.0/23
• 67.142.208.0/20
• 67.142.224.0/20
• 67.142.240.0/23
• 67.142.242.0/24
• 67.142.244.0/22
• 67.142.248.0/23
• 67.142.250.0/24
• 67.142.252.0/22
• 67.143.96.0/23
• 67.143.98.0/24
• 67.143.100.0/22
• 67.143.104.0/21
• 67.143.112.0/20
• 67.143.128.0/20
• 67.143.144.0/22
• 67.143.160.0/20
• 67.143.180.0/22
• 67.143.184.0/21
• 67.143.192.0/18
• 69.19.0.0/19

and 84 more.

Upstream networks

• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS13765 Nedelco Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS8057 Vision Net, Inc.
• AS32098 Transtelco Inc
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS3549 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS13999 Mega Cable, S.A. de C.V.
• AS6503 Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V.
• AS11172 Alestra, S. de R.L. de C.V.
• AS293 ESnet
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS52025 ParadoxNetworks Limited
• AS34927 iFog GmbH

Downstream networks

• AS265705 HUGHES DE COLOMBIA S.A.S.
• AS63062 Hughes Network Systems, LLC
• AS265591 HNS DE MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V.
• AS265515 TELEVERA RED S. A. P. I. DE C.V.
• AS28613 HUGHES TELECOMUNICACOES DO BRASIL LTDA.
• AS1358 Hughes Network Systems, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS265705 HUGHES DE COLOMBIA S.A.S.
• AS13765 Nedelco Inc.
• AS63062 Hughes Network Systems, LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS265591 HNS DE MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V.
• AS265515 TELEVERA RED S. A. P. I. DE C.V.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS28613 HUGHES TELECOMUNICACOES DO BRASIL LTDA.
• AS32098 Transtelco Inc
• AS8057 Vision Net, Inc.
• AS1358 Hughes Network Systems, LLC
• AS3549 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6503 Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V.
• AS13999 Mega Cable, S.A. de C.V.
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS11172 Alestra, S. de R.L. de C.V.
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS293 ESnet
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS3130 RGnet OU

Routing security

• RPKI: 636 valid, 0 invalid and 2 not-found announcements; 396 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1,225 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-10587-CUSTOMERS, AS-10835-TRANSIT, AS-14230-UPSTREAM, AS-29933-TRANSIT, AS-32098, AS-ALESTRA, AS-ANY2-RS, AS-AXTEL, AS-BESTEL-NET, AS-BGP-PEER-CUSTOMERS, AS-BGP-PEER-CUSTOMERS, AS-CCI-MN-CUST, AS-CHTR-BB, AS-COX-CALIFORNIA, AS-DCN, AS-DF-BROADCASTEDASNS, AS-FLEXENTIAL-CUSTOMERS, AS-FLEXENTIAL-TEST2, AS-GPC-TRANSIT, AS-GRANDE, AS-GTTCUST, AS-GTTCUST6, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-INTELSATUS.

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States