Autonomous system
AS10271 MEGANET-TCIX
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Meganet Communications
MEGANET-TCIX is Meganet Communications, an independent competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) based in Providence, Rhode Island, selling internet, voice and colocation to businesses across New England since 1996. It explicitly no longer sells residential service — this is a commercial network end to end.
What it's used for
Business connectivity and hosted infrastructure. The AS announces 16 IPv4 prefixes totalling roughly 16,600 addresses and one IPv6 2607:d980::/32. The address space comes from three legacy blocks — 209.213.64.0/19, 69.7.0.0/20 and 216.237.96.0/20 — deaggregated into /23s and /24s so individual customer circuits and colocation cabinets can be steered independently.
Reverse DNS shows both halves of the business. Infrastructure and customer-assignment space resolves under Meganet's own zone: web.meganet.net, 69-7-0-5.meganet.net, and the site-labelled 209-213-80-5.prv.ri.meganet.net — prv.ri being Providence, Rhode Island, the location of the company's downtown data centre. Interleaved with that are third-party domains on Meganet space: jelly.cape.com, mx2.mandala-designs.com, spool.naisp.net. Those are customers' own machines — mail servers and hosts — living on assigned addresses, which is exactly what a CLEC selling dedicated circuits and colo looks like from the outside. Crucially, there is not one dsl-, pool- or dhcp- style subscriber name anywhere in the sample.
Notable
A business ISP. Three observed BGP neighbours against 16,600 addresses is a multi-homed regional provider buying transit, not selling it at wholesale scale. Read this space as New England commercial and colocated infrastructure.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 26 prefixes · 16.64K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 27 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10271- Registry name
- MEGANET-TCIX
- Registrant
- Meganet Communications
- Abuse contact
- noc@meganet.net
- Registered
- 1997-06-03
- Last changed
- 2022-05-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 17 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS10271
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS10271
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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