Autonomous system
AS11698 WIATEL - WESTERN IOWA TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION (A COOPERATIVE)
Residential ARIN
Summary
Western Iowa Telephone Association
isp legacy
WIATEL is the network of the Western Iowa Telephone Association, a member-owned rural telephone cooperative serving small towns in western Iowa (trading as WIATEL). It is an eyeball access network: the addresses here terminate on subscribers, not on servers.
What it's used for
- Rural broadband, telephone and DSL/fibre access. RIS sees 4 IPv4 prefixes / 4,864 addresses plus one IPv6 /32 (
2607:2e40::/32), behind 1 observed neighbour — one upstream, which is what a co-op of this size buys. - The reverse DNS is the clearest evidence of what the space carries:
movl-3-208-126-75-5.dsl.netins.netandmovl-216-51-168-5.wiatel.netare per-address subscriber-style names,dsl.naming the access technology andmovlreading as a town or exchange code. Per-line PTRs of that shape are an access pool, not hosting.
Notable
- All four prefixes register to the co-op itself under variations of its own name (
WIATEL, Western Iowa Telephone Assn., Western Iowa Telephone). Same operator, same space, no third-party registrants — a real ISP running its own inventory. - The
netins.netdomain on one block is worth reading carefully: that is Iowa Network Services / Aureon, the statewide carrier many Iowa independents buy aggregation from. A customer block wearing its upstream's rDNS is normal and does not make this network Aureon's — the registrant record still says Western Iowa Telephone.
Interesting
- The IPv6
/32is a full RIR allocation. Small rural cooperatives are frequently ahead of much larger US operators on IPv6, and this one has had address space to deploy for years.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS5056 | Aureon Network Services | 278 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-06, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 4.86K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11698- Registry name
- WIATEL
- Registrant
- WESTERN IOWA TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION (A COOPERATIVE)
- Abuse contact
- jeremy.yanak@wiatel.com
- Registered
- 2015-04-29
- Last changed
- 2015-04-29
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11698
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 80% registered · 4 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS11698
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: 454 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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