Autonomous system
AS11062 MTCO-COMMUNICATIONS
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
MTCO Communications (Metro Communications Company)
isp legacy
MTCO-COMMUNICATIONS is the AS of MTCO Communications, a century-old family telephone company turned fiber ISP in central Illinois. ARIN now records the holder as Metro Communications Company of Sullivan, Illinois: MCC Network Services LLC (trading as Metro and Conxxus) acquired MTCO effective January 2026, and the ASN's registration record was last changed in March 2026.
What it's used for
Residential and small-business broadband access. MTCO serves Washington, Metamora, Germantown Hills and Marseilles in central Illinois, and it announces seven IPv4 prefixes totalling 23,552 addresses — headed by 207.179.192.0/18 and 72.34.0.0/20 — with no IPv6 seen in RIS.
The evidence for the eyeball role is unusually direct, because the sub-allocation names inside ARIN spell it out. 207.179.192.0/18 is registered as M207-179-192-0-WASHINGTON-GIGACENTER-STATIC-POOL2 and 72.34.0.0/20 as M72-34-0-0-MARSE7-1-DHCP-POOL1 — a static pool named after Washington, IL and a DHCP pool named after Marseilles, IL. A GigaCenter is a Calix residential fiber gateway. These are subscriber address pools named after the towns they serve, not hosting or transit space.
Reverse DNS matches: 207-179-192-5.mtco.net and 72-34-0-5.mtco.net on the core blocks, and *-dynamic.itw-dns.com across the smaller 170.117.164.0/22, 162.252.36.0/22 and 64.239.63.0/24 — the latter carrying an explicit dynamic label, i.e. rotating customer assignments.
Notable
Only one observed BGP neighbour. Combined with a five-figure address count and dynamic-pool rDNS, that is a textbook single-homed access network: it buys transit and hands the space to end users. Nothing here resembles a carrier, and nothing resembles the leased-space pattern either — the prefixes are registered to the operator's own pools, not to unrelated third parties.
Interesting
The smaller prefixes sit under different registrant handles and a different rDNS domain from the mtco.net core, the ordinary residue of a rural telco that has absorbed neighbouring exchanges over time — and MTCO has itself now been absorbed in turn.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.137.55 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS53610 | Metro Communications Company, Inc. | 455 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 23.55K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11062- Registry name
- MCC-MTCO
- Registrant
- Metro Communications Company
- Abuse contact
- IPabuse@metrocomm.com
- Registered
- 1998-03-27
- Last changed
- 2026-03-09
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- MTCO-COMMUNICATIONS
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.mtco.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 43% valid · 3 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS11062
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 86% registered · 6 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS11062
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 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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