Autonomous system
AS10958 ROYELLCOMMUNICATIONSINC
Residential ARIN
Summary
Royell Communications
isp legacy
ROYELLCOMMUNICATIONSINC is Royell Communications, Inc., an independent broadband provider serving Macoupin, Montgomery, Sangamon, Morgan and neighbouring counties in central Illinois, from a base in Virden. RIS observes 10 IPv4 prefixes covering 9,728 addresses, one IPv6 prefix (2606:7a80::/28), and 3 observed neighbours.
What it's used for
This is a subscriber access network. The sampled reverse DNS is uniformly customer-shaped, with names like 208-91-176-5.wireless.royell.org and 147-161-4-5.mm.crvl.royell.org built from the address itself plus a location or technology tag. Address-derived PTRs of that form are what an operator generates for subscriber pools, not for servers. Royell sells fibre and fixed-wireless service to homes and small businesses across a set of small Illinois towns, and the wireless. and town-coded labels reflect the delivery mechanism rather than any distinction in who is on the other end.
Notable
The IPv6 allocation is a 2606:7a80::/28. That is a very large block for a provider of this size, and its presence in the global table means Royell has actually deployed v6 rather than merely holding the allocation. Small rural ISPs are frequently ahead of much larger operators on this.
Interesting
The address space is scattered across several unrelated IPv4 ranges rather than one contiguous run, which fits a company that has grown by absorbing neighbouring wireless operators and inheriting their numbering along with their towers.
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 11 prefixes · 9.73K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 12 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10958- Registry name
- ROYELLCOMMUNICATIONSINC
- Registrant
- Royell Communications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- nic.eastman@royell.org
- Registered
- 2007-07-12
- Last changed
- 2019-08-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 11 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS10958
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS10958
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: 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