Autonomous system
AS7382 MIENERGY
Residential ARIN
Summary
MiEnergy Cooperative
isp legacy
MIENERGY is MiEnergy Cooperative, a member-owned rural electric cooperative headquartered in Rushford, Minnesota, formed by the 2017 merger of Hawkeye REC and Tri-County Electric Cooperative. It carries the network for MiBroadband, the rural internet venture it runs with neighbouring telephone cooperatives.
What it's used for
- Home and farm broadband in southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa. The reverse DNS is unambiguous: subscriber addresses resolve as
pppoe-<ip>.mibroadband.com, the signature of a residential access network. - The routed footprint is tiny,
139.60.164.0/23and139.60.166.0/24, which matches a co-op serving a few hundred to a few thousand rural connections rather than a metro ISP.
Notable
- This is an eyeball network: addresses in it belong to households and small businesses in rural counties, not to servers.
- Electric cooperatives building fibre and fixed-wireless broadband are a recurring pattern in US rural connectivity, and MiBroadband is a textbook example, funded partly by state and federal rural-broadband grants.
- ARIN issued this ASN in 2017, so the low number is a reissue and implies nothing about the network's age.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7382- Registry name
- MIENERGY
- Registrant
- MiEnergy Cooperative
- Abuse contact
- vvutov@mienergy.coop
- Registered
- 2017-08-11
- Last changed
- 2020-09-15
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere