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Autonomous system

AS58246 LOTHIANBROADBAND

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 3.07K 3 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly GB
Exchanges 2 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 4 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Highland Broadband

United Kingdom · AI-generated

residential fibre rural isp

LOTHIANBROADBAND is operated by Highland Broadband Networks Limited.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries residential full-fibre broadband services, evidenced by netnames UK-LOTHIAN-NET-20141017, UK-LOTHIAN-NET-20151006, and UK-HIGHLANDWIRELESS-20181204.
  • The AS announces 3,072 IPv4 addresses across 3 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 12 observed neighbours, indicating a regional access network providing connectivity to rural Scottish communities.
  • Traffic consists of subscriber eyeballs accessing the internet via full-fibre connections in rural towns and villages across Scotland.

Notable

  • Registrants for the two largest prefixes are Highland Broadband Networks Limited, while the third prefix is registered to Highland Wireless & IT Solutions Ltd, suggesting a related entity or historical acquisition.
  • The address inventory is compact, consisting of three /22 blocks and a single /29 IPv6 prefix, typical of a regional ISP focused on specific geographic coverage rather than large-scale national infrastructure.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
LINX ManchesterManchester, United Kingdom195.66.244.50
LINX ScotlandScotland, United Kingdom195.66.246.37

Transit providers

4 upstream, 0 downstream and 8 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS174Cogent Communications, LLC102
AS3257GTT Communications Inc.51
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC47
AS24482SG.GS4

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-21, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 3 prefixes · 3.07K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
GBUnited Kingdom4

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS58246
Registry name
LothianBroadband
Registrant
Highland Broadband Networks Limited
Abuse contact
abuse@lothianbroadband.com
Registered
2014-10-27
Last changed
2022-05-09
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
ROAs
0 authorising AS58246
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
Route objects
5 naming AS58246

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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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

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