Autonomous system
AS4497 UPSTEL-NET
Residential ARIN
Summary
Upsala Co-operative Telephone Association (Sytek)
isp legacy
UPSTEL-NET is the network of the Upsala Co-operative Telephone Association, a member-owned rural telephone cooperative in Upsala, Minnesota, which delivers internet and phone service under the Sytek brand.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business broadband and telephone service in central Minnesota, including Morrison, Stearns, and Todd counties.
- Fiber-to-the-premises service built out with USDA Rural Development support.
Notable
- Eyeball address space serving a small rural subscriber base — a handful of /22s rather than the large pools a metro ISP would need.
- A cooperative, not a commercial carrier: it is owned by the subscribers it serves.
Interesting
- The co-op traces its telephone service back to 1907, making it far older than the internet it now carries. Rural telephone cooperatives like this one are a recurring feature at the low end of the ASN space, having connected early and never given the number back.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS27204 | The Albany Mutual Telephone Association | 320 |
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 4 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS4497- Registry name
- UPSTEL-NET
- Registrant
- Upsala Co-operative Telephone Association
- Abuse contact
- diane@sytekcommunications.com
- Registered
- 1995-03-15
- Last changed
- 2001-10-25
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Upsala Co-operative Telephone Association
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS4497
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS4497
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