Autonomous system
AS11741 BENTONREA
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Benton REA PowerNet
isp legacy
BENTONREA is BENTON REA POWERNET — PowerNet, the internet service run by Benton Rural Electric Association, a member-owned electric cooperative headquartered in Prosser, Washington. PowerNet delivered fixed-wireless broadband to the Yakima and Mid-Columbia valleys, serving parts of Benton, Yakima and Lewis counties.
What it's used for
Subscriber internet access for a rural electric co-op's members. RIS sees 2 IPv4 prefixes, 512 addresses, no IPv6, and 3 observed neighbours. Both prefixes, 216.7.32.0/24 and 216.7.33.0/24, are registered in ARIN under the single handle BREA-PNET-1 to BENTON REA POWERNET. Registrant and originator are the same party, so nothing here is leased or third-party space.
The shape is a very small rural ISP and nothing else. Three neighbours means the AS takes transit and originates only its own two /24s; it sells no connectivity onward. The address count is modest even for a WISP, consistent with an operator that puts most subscribers behind carrier-grade NAT and needs public addresses only for the edge and for customers who ask.
Notable
The utility-cooperative-turned-ISP is a recognisable American pattern. Rural electric co-ops were built to run wire to places investor-owned utilities would not serve, and a number of them extended the same logic to broadband decades later, using the poles and rights-of-way they already had.
Interesting
PowerNet was acquired in April 2025 by Advanced High Speed Internet, a locally owned provider in Yakima, which assumed operations. The AS and its address blocks still carry the Benton REA PowerNet registration, so the routing lags the ownership change. That is the usual sequence: BGP and RDAP are the last things to be renamed after a small ISP changes hands, and the name on the AS may not be the name answering the phone.
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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 2026-10-18, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11741- Registry name
- BENTONREA
- Registrant
- BENTON REA POWERNET
- Abuse contact
- mthomas@bentonrea.org
- Registered
- 1998-12-03
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11741
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS11741
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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