AS11059 MIFFLIN-COUNTY-WIRELESS

MIFFLIN-COUNTY-WIRELESS is Mifflin County Wireless LLC of Lewistown, Pennsylvania — a fixed-wireless ISP founded in 2020 that now operates as a division of One-Stop Communications, the central-Pennsylvania communications retailer it merged with. ARIN records the ASN itself as registered in September 2020, so the low AS number is a recycled one rather than a legacy network.

What it's used for

The company delivers wireless broadband, fed by fibre, to homes and businesses around Lewistown, Burnham, Yeagertown, Belleville, McVeytown and McClure. That eyeball role is visible in both the registry and the DNS: prefixes carry netnames like MCW-RESIDENTIAL-NETWORK and MCW-LTE-NETWORK, and sampled addresses resolve as 64-234-228-5.mcwnet.io — provider-generated per-address names, the classic shape of a subscriber pool rather than servers.

Notable

The inventory is untidy for a county-sized WISP: a long tail of blocks pulled from many unrelated legacy ranges, some announced space registered to ONE-STOP-OSC-RESIDENTIAL-GTT, and sampled addresses in one /22 still wearing a wholesale carrier's default reverse DNS (*.globalcapacity.com, with New York and Los Angeles market codes in the names). That mixture is worth reading carefully, because scattered blocks under several different registrant names is also the fingerprint of an address-leasing operation. Here it resolves benignly: the registrant handles trace back to Mifflin County Wireless and One-Stop's own ARIN org and share the operator's contacts, the group is a real and findable business, and the first-party mcwnet.io and osc.network reverse DNS confirms who runs the space. A carrier's default rDNS on a customer block means only that the block came through that carrier.

Interesting

The routing counters and the prefix list in the underlying data disagree with each other on this AS, so no address total is quoted here. Prefix count alone would be misleading anyway when a single /17 dwarfs everything else announced.