Autonomous system
AS206347 RANSTON-AS-1
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Wessex Internet
isp residential uk cable
The AS handle RANSTON-AS-1 is held by Wessex Internet Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business internet access, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
customer-wessexinternet.comandcustomer-ranston.net, alongside infrastructure names likewessexinternet.net. - The network announces 26,880 IPv4 addresses across 12 prefixes and maintains 85 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a regional access provider aggregating traffic from multiple upstreams.
- Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber eyeballs for broadband, fibre, and wireless 4G services provided to customers in the United Kingdom.
Notable
- Registrants largely align with the announcer, with most prefixes registered to Wessex Internet Limited; however, the 149.100.96.0/19 block is registered to Cogent Communications, LLC, and 194.49.12.0/22 is registered to James Randolf Gibson Fleming trading as Ranston Farms.
- The address inventory is a mix of legacy and acquired space, including blocks registered under the "Ranston" name, reflecting the operator's historical identity or mergers.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.227.108 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.81.168 |
Transit providers
21 upstream, 1 downstream and 22 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 12 prefixes · 26.88K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 12 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS206347- Registry name
- RANSTON-AS-1
- Registrant
- Wessex Internet Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@wessexinternet.com
- Registered
- 2017-08-08
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Wessex Internet
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Website
- https://www.wessexinternet.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
- 88% valid · 29 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS206347
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 33 of 33 announcements
- Route objects
- 36 naming AS206347
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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