Autonomous system
AS11796 AIRSTREAMCOMM-NET
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Airstream Communications, LLC
isp legacy
AIRSTREAMCOMM-NET is Airstream Communications, LLC, the shared internet network of a consortium of roughly 28 independent Wisconsin telephone companies and cooperatives — Baldwin Lightstream, Amery, Amherst, Coon Valley-Farmers, Citizens Connected, Vernon Communications Coop and many others. Airstream is the joint upstream those member companies route through.
What it's used for
Residential and small-business broadband across rural Wisconsin, aggregated under one AS. RIS observes 23 IPv4 prefixes totalling about 173,000 addresses, 3 IPv6 prefixes, and 82 observed neighbours — a mid-sized regional network with real peering, larger than any single member telco could justify alone.
The registrant list looks scattered at first glance and is nothing of the sort: the prefixes are registered to the member companies themselves — Coon Valley-Farmers Telephone, Amherst Telephone, Amery Telephone, Baldwin Telecom, Ntera — while Airstream announces them. These are not unrelated third parties; they are the co-owners of the network doing the announcing, which is what a telco consortium looks like in the registries.
Reverse DNS confirms what the space carries, and it is unambiguous: dsl-, dhcp-, pppoe, cable, dynamic and calix hostnames under airstreamcomm.net, mwt.net and citizens-connected.net, named per town — Coon Valley, LaValle, Amery, Baldwin, New Richmond, Phillips. This is subscriber access space, delivered over DSL, cable and fibre.
Notable
The rDNS is a map of the member roster: each block is labelled with the exchange it serves. It also names the access technology, not the customer — dsl and pppoe here are ordinary home broadband, not anything more exotic.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.81.117 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.76 |
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.10 |
| DE-CIX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 149.112.11.64 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 51 prefixes · 171K addresses IPv6 108 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 159 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11796- Registry name
- AIRSTREAMCOMM-NET
- Registrant
- Airstream Communications, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@airstreamcomm.net
- Registered
- 1998-12-22
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- WIN Technology
- Also known as
- Airstream Communications
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS11796:AS-ALL- Present at
- 5 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://wintechnology.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
- 81% valid · 21 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 27 authorising AS11796
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 26 of 26 announcements
- Route objects
- 82 naming AS11796
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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