Autonomous system
AS13428 SURFAIRWIRELESS-IN-02
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Surf Air Wireless
isp telecom infrastructure
A commercial wireless provider announcing a /18 of the amateur radio allocation, under a callsign's domain.
What it's used for
- A United States fixed wireless provider. 136,960 addresses across 115 IPv4 prefixes, twenty-two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
44.15.64.0/18is netnameAMPRNET, registered to Amateur Radio Digital Communications.- Addresses in it resolve as
44-15-95-255.mi6.w8cmn.net, whose second label is a callsign. - Most other blocks are netname
SAWL-1; one isFNW-MI2registered to a different company. - Three reverse domains appear, and two octet orders:
104.128.203.254.moline-mi.surfairwireless.netreads forwards,254.27.164.184.surfinternet.comreads backwards.
Interesting
- The amateur radio address space was set aside for licensed operators long before commercial internet existed. Portions of it are now leased or used under agreement, and this is what that looks like in practice: a working /18 inside a commercial network, still registered to the amateur body, with reverse names under an operator's callsign.
- One hundred and fifteen prefixes for 137,000 addresses means an average announcement of about a /21. A wireless network built tower by tower accumulates small blocks and announces each as it is deployed.
- The two octet orders come from two different generations of zone tooling, both still authoritative for parts of the same network.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.137.24 |
| Detroit Internet Exchange | Detroit, United States | 209.124.52.132 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 102 prefixes · 145K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 103 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13428- Registry name
- SURFAIRWIRELESS-IN-02
- Registrant
- Surf Air Wireless, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@surfairwireless.us
- Registered
- 1999-06-03
- Last changed
- 2015-04-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Surf Air Wireless AS13428
- Also known as
- Surf Internet / Surf Broadband Solutions
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-SURFAIRWIRELESS- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 7 facilities
- Website
- http://www.surfinternet.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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 180 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS13428
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 180 of 180 announcements
- Route objects
- 128 naming AS13428
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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