Autonomous system
AS204103 commswest Comms West Limited
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Comms West
broadband residential business uk
COMMSWEST is operated by Comms West Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries broadband connectivity for the Scottish Highlands and Islands, with netnames
UK-COMMS-20141006andUK-COMMS-20240702identifying the blocks. - The AS announces 1280 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, maintaining 3 observed neighbours; this low neighbour count relative to the address inventory indicates an access network rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic consists of residential and business broadband subscribers in the West Highlands and Islands, including fixed wireless and mesh-based services.
Notable
- Registrants for both announced prefixes are Comms West Limited, matching the AS holder.
- Comms West Limited is a private limited company incorporated in the UK, providing broadband services to remote communities in the West Highlands and Islands.
- The inventory consists of two distinct IPv4 blocks, one allocated in 2014 and one in 2024, reflecting phased expansion of the network.
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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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS204103- Registry name
- commswest
- Registrant
- lir-uk-comms-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@commswest.co.uk
- Registered
- 2015-08-25
- Last changed
- 2024-09-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS204103
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS204103
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: 454 networks and 1,847 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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