AS2686: IP address ranges and network type
AS2686 holds 2,141 IPv4 segments covering 1,372,672 addresses across 43 countries, 36% of them in United States as of 14 September 2026. By usage type it is 64% residential broadband and 24% gateway / NAT egress.
Network usage types in AS2686
What kind of address space a network is made of decides what kind of proxy risk it carries: datacenter space is where hosting-based proxies and VPN exits live; residential broadband and mobile space is where home-broadband proxies and dial-up pools live. The share is by IPv4 segment.
| Usage type | Segments | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Residential broadband | 43 | 64.2% |
| Gateway / NAT egress | 16 | 23.9% |
| Datacenter | 6 | 9.0% |
| Mobile network | 2 | 3.0% |
Countries where AS2686 has addresses
Share of the network's IPv4 segments by the country each segment is located in. A network whose space is spread over many countries is usually a hosting or transit operator rather than a domestic broadband provider.
| Country / region | Segments | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 774 | 36.2% |
| Netherlands | 320 | 14.9% |
| United Kingdom | 286 | 13.4% |
| Germany | 176 | 8.2% |
| France | 109 | 5.1% |
| Switzerland | 54 | 2.5% |
| Italy | 53 | 2.5% |
| Belgium | 52 | 2.4% |
| Austria | 44 | 2.1% |
| Spain | 29 | 1.4% |
| South Africa | 23 | 1.1% |
| Denmark | 22 | 1.0% |
| Sweden | 22 | 1.0% |
| Norway | 19 | 0.9% |
| Ireland | 18 | 0.8% |
| Czechia | 15 | 0.7% |
| Greece | 15 | 0.7% |
| Hungary | 15 | 0.7% |
| Finland | 14 | 0.7% |
| Israel | 13 | 0.6% |
| Other (23 countries) | 68 | 3.2% |
Look up a single address in AS2686
Free, no signup: curl https://ip99.com/v1/ip/15.20.98.0 returns the country, ASN, usage type and a risk score for one address — see the API documentation. For scoring at volume, pricing; for what the score does and does not mean, what an IP risk score means.
Go deeper
How to tell whether an address is a proxy, VPN or datacenter · Rotating residential proxies and dial-up pools · Residential proxy exits observed this week · IP ranges by country
FAQ
How many IP addresses does AS2686 have?
In the IP99 geolocation database AS2686 holds 2,141 IPv4 segments covering 1,372,672 addresses as of 14 September 2026. Counts are by located segment, not by BGP announcement, so they can differ from a routing table.
Is AS2686 a residential or a datacenter network?
64% of its IPv4 segments are classified as residential broadband and 24% as gateway / NAT egress. The classification is per segment: one network can carry both kinds of space, which is why a lookup of the exact address is more useful than the network-level share.
Which countries does AS2686 cover?
AS2686 has addresses in 43 countries; the largest share is United States (36%), followed by Netherlands (15%).