Autonomous system
AS7992 COGECOWAVE
Residential ARIN
Summary
Cogeco Connexion
isp residential eyeball legacy
COGECOWAVE is the main Autonomous System of Cogeco Connexion, Canada's cable broadband operator in Ontario and Québec. It is a large eyeball network — close to a million IPv4 addresses of home and small-business subscribers.
What it's used for
- Residential cable internet. The rDNS is unmistakable subscriber addressing:
d24-36-0-NNN.home1.cgocable.net,d67-193-0-NNN.home3.cgocable.net— ahomezone with per-addressd-prefixed names, spread across numbered CMTS regions. - Business and static-IP service on a parallel zone,
dNN-NN-NN-NN.static.comm.cgocable.net. - Cogeco's own backbone and headend infrastructure, which surfaces under names like
cgowave-busy-core-s0-0.cgocable.net.
Notable
- An IP in AS7992 almost always maps to a subscriber, not a server. It is a normal source of consumer browsing, streaming and gaming traffic, and a poor place to find hosting.
- Cogeco is one of the older cable ISPs still holding its own low AS number: the
cgocable.netnaming and the classic24.0.0.0/8cable ranges (24.36.0.0/16,24.150.0.0/16,24.141.0.0/16and more) date from the era when24/8was set aside for cable modem service.
Interesting
- Cogeco has kept growing by buying transferred legacy address space, and it shows: it now announces
57.134.128.0/17and9.168.0.0/16— chunks carved out of two of the oldest Class A blocks in the registry — plus80.86.16.0/20, which was moved out of the RIPE region into ARIN. All of them resolve to ordinarycgocable.netsubscriber and static-business names, so they are Canadian eyeball addresses despite where the blocks originally came from.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.27 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 23 downstream and 42 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 38 prefixes · 989K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 40 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7992- Registry name
- COGECOWAVE
- Registrant
- Cogeco Connexion Inc.
- Abuse contact
- security@cogeco.net
- Registered
- 1997-03-17
- Last changed
- 2023-04-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 93% valid · 38 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 38 authorising AS7992
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 41 of 41 announcements
- Route objects
- 79 naming AS7992
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 1,771 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