Autonomous system
AS21681 MPOWER-POWERED-BY-MEC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Empower
cooperative residential broadband virginia
MPOWER-POWERED-BY-MEC is operated by Empower, the broadband division of Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential broadband traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
cgn-198-145-122-128.chasecity.va.empower.usandcust-192-86-21-64.chasecity.va.empower.us. - The AS announces 1536 IPv4 addresses across 4 prefixes and 17 IPv6 prefixes, connecting to only 2 observed neighbours, a ratio characteristic of an access network serving local subscribers.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of prefixes are Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative, while the 192.86.21.0/24 block is registered to Buggs Island Telephone Co-operative under the netname
EMPOWER-CHASE-CITY-CGN. - The inventory consists of four distinct IPv4 blocks, including two /23s and two /24s, alongside a large IPv6 allocation under the 2604:cf40::/43 range.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Richmond | Richmond, United States | 206.53.137.46 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS32425 | Pixel Factory | 334 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, 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 · 1.54K addresses IPv6 17 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 21 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS21681- Registry name
- MPOWER-POWERED-BY-MEC
- Registrant
- Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative
- Abuse contact
- dlong@meckelec.org
- Registered
- 2018-05-02
- Last changed
- 2018-05-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS21681
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS21681
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 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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