Autonomous system
AS14828 HBCI-1999TA
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Hiawatha Broadband Communications
isp telecom infrastructure
A small-town ISP announcing space still registered to three different national carriers, two of which no longer exist under those names.
What it's used for
- A regional broadband provider. 59,136 addresses across 17 IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix,
2605:9b80::/32, with five observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Its own blocks carry netnames
HBC-73,HBC-001andHBC-003. 8.24.96.0/20carriesLVLT-ORG-8-8, registered toLevel 3 Parent, LLC.- Four blocks carry the netname
SPRINTLINK. - Three more carry
GX-FRO2003807254, with the provider named as the registrant. - The AS handle is
HBCI-1999TA. - One of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name:
cable-207-138-215-254.dynamic.hbci.com.
Interesting
GX-FRO2003807254is a carrier's order number, filed as a netname and never revisited. It outlasted the carrier that issued it, which is how a defunct company keeps appearing in the registry decades later.- Four different naming systems on one small network: the operator's own initials, one carrier's organisation code, another's product name, and a third's ticket. Each block remembers who sold it.
- The handle ends in a year, which dates the application rather than anything about the network.
- One name out of eighteen, and it says
cableanddynamic. The reverse zone exists but is populated only where a customer connection was actually turned up.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.55 |
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 17 prefixes · 59.14K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14828- Registry name
- HBCI-1999TA
- Registrant
- Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc
- Abuse contact
- abuse@exchange.hbci.com
- Registered
- 2000-02-10
- Last changed
- 2015-03-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc
- Also known as
- HBC
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS14828:AS-ALL- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.hbci.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
- 39% valid · 7 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS14828
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 18 of 18 announcements
- Route objects
- 40 naming AS14828
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: 442 networks and 1,773 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