Autonomous system
AS14703 MAQSNET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Marquette-Adams Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
isp telecom infrastructure
Its one reverse name contains a town, an equipment vendor, a line type and a port number.
What it's used for
- A rural telephone cooperative's internet network. 10,240 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix,
2604:260::/32, with a single observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
66.187.32.0/20and66.206.48.0/20carry the netnamesMAQS-BLK-1andMAQS-BLK-2, registered to the cooperative.38.254.12.0/22carriesMRAD-CGNT-NET-1, and154.59.60.0/22carriesCOGENT-154-59-16registered toCogent Communications, LLC.- One of twelve sampled addresses returned a name:
oxfo-occam-dyn-002-507.dsl.maqs.net.
Interesting
- That single hostname carries four facts. A four-letter town abbreviation, the name of the access equipment vendor, a marker saying the address is handed out dynamically, and a pair of numbers for the shelf and port the subscriber is plugged into. A support technician can find the physical line from the address alone.
- Naming the hardware vendor in a customer-facing hostname ties the zone to a purchasing decision. When the equipment is replaced, either every name changes or the label becomes a fossil.
- Two blocks are the cooperative's own and two came from its upstream, one of them still registered in the carrier's name. The abbreviation for that carrier also appears inside one of the cooperative's own netnames, so the relationship is recorded twice in different words.
- A single neighbour makes that upstream the whole of this network's connection to the internet.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS11796 | Airstream Communications, LLC | 568 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, 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 · 10.24K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14703- Registry name
- MAQSNET
- Registrant
- MARQUETTE-ADAMS TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@maqs.net
- Registered
- 2000-01-28
- Last changed
- 2017-01-17
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14703
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 90% registered · 9 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS14703
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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