Autonomous system
AS10352 WCTC
Residential ARIN
Summary
Solarus
residential broadband ilec fiber wisconsin
WCTC is Solarus, the Wisconsin Rapids telephone company — founded in 1896 as Wood County Telephone Company and rebranded in the 2000s. It is the largest independent telco in Wisconsin, serving roughly 17,000 customers with fiber internet, phone and TV.
What it's used for
- Consumer and small-business broadband across central Wisconsin: FTTH, legacy DSL and dial-era access aggregation, plus the company's IT-services arm.
- The reverse DNS is the giveaway and it is unusually rich:
DSLPool-net208-5,wau-dsl-208-5.solarus.net,sharondsl-p1-5,Baraboo-nas3-219-133(a network access server — dial/DSL aggregation), and rows of numerically-named063-247-032-005.solarus.nethosts. Pooled, per-address, positionally-named PTRs like these are what a subscriber access network looks like.
Notable
- Eyeball ISP, not carrier. RIS sees 57 IPv4 prefixes / 32,768 addresses plus one IPv6 prefix (
2605:7240::/32), against 14 observed BGP neighbours. Fourteen neighbours is a well-connected regional access network buying transit and peering locally; a wholesale carrier of any scale peers with hundreds. - The heavy deaggregation of a modest address pool across many
/22–/24s is the fingerprint of an ILEC that has absorbed neighbouring exchanges over time.
Interesting
- The rDNS is a fossil record of acquisitions:
wctc.net,solarus.net,mtc.net,tznet.com,dwave.net/dwave.organdsharontelephone.comall appear in the same AS — several small Wisconsin telephone companies and ISPs now answering under one roof, with their old naming still in place.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.137.97 |
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.39 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 39 prefixes · 32.26K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 40 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10352- Registry name
- WCTC
- Registrant
- Solarus
- Abuse contact
- ipadmin@solarus.net
- Registered
- 1997-07-07
- Last changed
- 2019-12-19
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 79% valid · 46 valid, 12 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS10352
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 58 of 58 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS10352
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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