AS7382 — MIENERGY

Network type: residential

AS7382 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MIENERGY is MiEnergy Cooperative, a member-owned rural electric cooperative headquartered in Rushford, Minnesota, formed by the 2017 merger of Hawkeye REC and Tri-County Electric Cooperative. It carries the network for MiBroadband, the rural internet venture it runs with neighbouring telephone cooperatives.

What it's used for

• Home and farm broadband in southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa. The reverse DNS is unambiguous: subscriber addresses resolve as pppoe-<ip>.mibroadband.com, the signature of a residential access network.
• The routed footprint is tiny, 139.60.164.0/23 and 139.60.166.0/24, which matches a co-op serving a few hundred to a few thousand rural connections rather than a metro ISP.

Notable

• This is an eyeball network: addresses in it belong to households and small businesses in rural counties, not to servers.
• Electric cooperatives building fibre and fixed-wireless broadband are a recurring pattern in US rural connectivity, and MiBroadband is a textbook example, funded partly by state and federal rural-broadband grants.
• ARIN issued this ASN in 2017, so the low number is a reissue and implies nothing about the network's age.

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

Announced prefixes

• 139.60.164.0/23
• 139.60.166.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS398563 MiBroadband, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS398563 MiBroadband, LLC