Autonomous system
AS10653 MVANET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
USAi.net (formerly MVA.NET)
isp hosting legacy
MVANET is USAi.net, Inc., a small independent Massachusetts service provider. The handle preserves the company's original name, MVA.NET, for the Merrimack Valley, the stretch of the Merrimack river north of Boston where it started as a dial-up and web-hosting ISP in the late 1990s. It now runs out of Haverhill and sells fixed wireless and fibre connectivity, colocation and hosting, mostly around the Boston area.
What it's used for
The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix, 216.236.240.0/20, totalling 4,096 addresses, no IPv6, and RIS sees one observed neighbour.
One neighbour is the decisive number. Whatever the company sells, in the routing table it is a single-homed stub: it buys transit from one upstream and originates one legacy block. It provides no transit to anyone else, so despite being an ISP by trade this AS sits at the edge of the internet, not in its middle.
A /20 is a plausible size for a provider of this kind. It is enough to number a few thousand customer endpoints, hosted servers and colocated machines, and nowhere near enough to run a mass-market broadband business.
Notable
The card stops short of saying what fraction of the block is access customers versus hosted and colocated machines, because the evidence does not settle it: reverse DNS returned nothing on the addresses sampled, and that is a sample, not a finding. An operator that sells business connectivity, wireless access, colocation and web hosting out of one small legacy /20 is genuinely mixed, and the honest answer is that the inventory here cannot be split.
The survival of the MVANET handle is the interesting part. It is a fossil of a 1997 regional dial-up ISP, still originating its original address block nearly three decades later, after most of its contemporaries were bought or shut down.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.108.236.17 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS30001 | Techevolution | 59 |
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 1 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10653- Registry name
- MVANET
- Registrant
- USAI.NET
- Abuse contact
- dave@usai.net
- Registered
- 1997-10-16
- Last changed
- 1997-10-16
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10653
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS10653
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: 432 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