Autonomous system
AS12083 WOW-INTERNET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
WideOpenWest (WOW!)
isp cable residential legacy
WOW! is a US cable operator selling broadband, TV and phone across a scattered footprint in the Midwest and Southeast.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business cable broadband. The sampled reverse DNS is full of
d24-192-175-254.try.wideopenwest.com-style names, the per-subscriber pattern a cable modem plant generates.
Notable
- 631 IPv4 prefixes for 797,000 addresses. That ratio is the fingerprint of a company assembled by acquisition rather than one that grew into a single contiguous allocation.
- Some of that space still answers under
knology.net. Knology was a separate southeastern cable overbuilder that WOW! bought in 2012, and more than a decade later its reverse DNS zone is still in service.
Interesting
- WOW! built much of its footprint as an overbuilder, entering markets already served by an incumbent cable company rather than holding a franchise of its own. That strategy is why the map is a patchwork of metros instead of a contiguous region, and it shows up directly in the shape of the address space.
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 8 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.136 |
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 2001:504:36::2f33:0:1 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.191 |
| Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange | Atlanta, United States | 206.126.110.23 |
| Digital Realty New York Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 206.126.115.74 |
| United IX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 206.41.110.31 |
| Montgomery Internet Exchange | Montgomery, United States | 206.53.200.12 |
| Tampa Internet Exchange | Tampa, United States | 206.108.114.2 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 647 prefixes · 883K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 648 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12083- Registry name
- WOW-INTERNET
- Registrant
- WideOpenWest Finance LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@wideopenwest.com
- Registered
- 1999-03-19
- Last changed
- 2018-08-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 98% valid · 758 valid, 12 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 269 authorising AS12083
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 517 of 772 announcements 9 other origin
- Route objects
- 654 naming AS12083
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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