Autonomous system
AS329028 RNL1-AS
Residential AFRINIC
Summary
Rapid Networks
isp residential eyeball fiber fixed-wireless
Rapid Networks (Pty) Ltd is a regional South African ISP based in Vredenburg, serving the West Coast towns around Saldanha Bay.
What it's used for
- Fixed-wireless and fibre home internet for consumers in Vredenburg, Saldanha, Langebaan, St Helena Bay and nearby West Coast communities.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network: addresses here are home and small-business connections on a regional access network, not servers.
- A local independent operator (AFRINIC-registered) with an open peering policy, serving a defined coastal service area rather than a national footprint.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.71.98 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.198 |
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 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS329028- Registry name
- ORG-RNL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Rapid Networks (Pty) Ltd
- Registered
- 2022-03-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS329028
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS329028
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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