Autonomous system
AS6621 HNS-DIRECPC
Residential ARIN
Summary
Hughes Network Systems (HughesNet)
isp satellite legacy
The satellite broadband network of Hughes Network Systems, LLC, registered under the handle HNS-DIRECPC. The handle names DirecPC, the early Hughes consumer satellite internet product whose descendants ship today as HughesNet.
What it's used for
- Addressing for satellite internet subscribers. Reverse DNS across its space resolves to
host-….hnremote.net, the naming used for HughesNet remote terminals, which is about as clear a subscriber signal as rDNS gets. - The AS announces several hundred IPv4 prefixes plus a large IPv6 footprint, covering hundreds of thousands of addresses.
Notable
- This is residential space with an unusual physical layer. Users are typically in rural and remote areas where terrestrial broadband is unavailable, so addresses here often geolocate poorly: the address is tied to a satellite gateway, not to the customer's house.
- Latency on this network is dominated by the geostationary hop, and traffic is commonly shaped by the accelerator and proxy equipment in the Hughes gateways.
Interesting
- The
DIRECPCin the handle is a fossil from the mid-1990s. The ASN registration dates from that era, and the product name changed repeatedly, but the handle never did.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.81.173 |
Transit providers
20 upstream, 6 downstream and 45 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 2026-10-12, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 161 prefixes · 551K addresses IPv6 67 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 228 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6621- Registry name
- HNS-DIRECPC
- Registrant
- Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@hughes.net
- Registered
- 1995-06-05
- Last changed
- 2012-06-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Hughes Network Systems llc
- Also known as
- Hughes
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-NADBB- Facilities
- 6 facilities
- Website
- http://www.hughes.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
- 99.7% valid · 636 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 396 authorising AS6621
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 638 of 638 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,225 naming AS6621
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: 436 networks and 1,769 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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