Autonomous system
AS10242 USINTERNET
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
US Internet Corp
USINTERNET is US Internet Corp, a Minnesota broadband provider best known for its fibre-to-the-premises build across the Twin Cities and for USI Wireless, the fixed-wireless network it ran for the City of Minneapolis. AS10242 is that access network.
What it's used for
Residential and small-business internet in and around Minneapolis. The AS announces 36 IPv4 prefixes totalling roughly 132,100 addresses plus one IPv6 2605:8400::/28, a very large v6 allocation of the kind an access ISP takes so it can hand a /56 or /48 to every subscriber.
The reverse DNS is unusually legible and settles the product mix. Customer space resolves to 74-188-0-5.fttp.usinternet.com, 24-152-128-5.fttp.usinternet.com, 23-88-128-5.fttp.usinternet.com — the fttp label is the fibre access product, and the IP-encoded-into-the-hostname pattern is how access ISPs name subscriber pools. Older space resolves under usiwireless.com, the fixed-wireless side. Core routers show through separately as 200ge-po4.usi-cr01-mpls.usinternet.com — mpls here is the airport code for Minneapolis, a site label, not the protocol.
Notable
This is an eyeball network. 52 observed BGP neighbours against 132,000 addresses is the profile of a regional ISP that peers openly — Minneapolis hosts MICE, one of the larger community exchanges in the US, and a local access provider will pick up dozens of adjacencies there cheaply. That is peering breadth, not transit sales; a wholesale carrier would show hundreds. Read this space as consumer and small-business subscribers in the Twin Cities.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 7 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.81.116 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.75 |
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.19 |
| Interconnection eXchange Denver | Denver, United States | 206.53.175.202 |
| DE-CIX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 149.112.11.55 |
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.49 |
| Quad Cities Internet Exchange | Davenport, United States | 206.83.43.7 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 27 downstream and 57 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 48 prefixes · 131K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 49 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10242- Registry name
- USINTERNET
- Registrant
- US Internet Corp
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@usinternet.com
- Registered
- 1997-05-19
- Last changed
- 1997-05-19
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- US Internet
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-USINTERNET- Present at
- 9 exchanges
- Facilities
- 12 facilities
- Website
- http://www.usinternet.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 78% valid · 29 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 29 authorising AS10242
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 37 of 37 announcements
- Route objects
- 37 naming AS10242
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere