Internet service provider
OPTINET IP ranges and locations
OPTINET (AS10474): residential ISP in South Africa, 185 IPv4 prefixes, 802,048 addresses, #6 of 130 ISPs. Cities served, largest ranges and the VPN/proxy answer.
At a glance
- Name
- OPTINET
- Network type
- Residential
- ASN
- AS10474
- Country
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Share of South Africa IPv4 space
- 3.47%
- Largest range
- 197.80.242.0/23
Cities and regions served
Geolocating the first address of each of the 10 largest ranges places OPTINET customers in Cape Town, Cape Town (Golf Course), London, Sandton (Bryanston). Residential blocks are assigned per region, so a lookup of a OPTINET address usually resolves to the subscriber's metropolitan area rather than an exact street.
Is OPTINET a VPN or proxy?
No. OPTINET is classified as a residential ISP network and none of the 10 sampled ranges appears in the datacenter list, so an address from AS10474 normally belongs to a subscriber's home router or phone. That is the profile of a genuine residential IP — the opposite of a VPN or datacenter proxy. Note that residential proxy networks can still route through consumer devices on any ISP, so a clean network is a strong signal, not a guarantee.
Largest IPv4 ranges
| CIDR | First address | Last address | Addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 197.80.242.0/23 | 197.80.242.0 | 197.82.159.255 | 110,080 |
| 41.132.80.0/20 | 41.132.80.0 | 41.133.63.255 | 61,440 |
| 197.87.224.0/19 | 197.87.224.0 | 197.88.199.255 | 59,392 |
| 197.85.8.0/21 | 197.85.8.0 | 197.85.181.255 | 44,544 |
| 197.86.51.0/24 | 197.86.51.0 | 197.86.191.255 | 36,096 |
| 197.82.224.0/19 | 197.82.224.0 | 197.83.87.255 | 30,720 |
| 197.94.104.0/21 | 197.94.104.0 | 197.94.191.255 | 22,528 |
| 197.92.64.0/18 | 197.92.64.0 | 197.92.143.255 | 20,480 |
| 41.134.141.0/24 | 41.134.141.0 | 41.134.219.255 | 20,224 |
| 41.135.123.0/24 | 41.135.123.0 | 41.135.191.255 | 17,664 |
| 197.83.255.0/24 | 197.83.255.0 | 197.84.67.255 | 17,664 |
| 197.85.192.0/18 | 197.85.192.0 | 197.85.255.255 | 16,384 |
| 197.80.0.0/19 | 197.80.0.0 | 197.80.61.255 | 15,872 |
| 41.134.0.0/19 | 41.134.0.0 | 41.134.48.255 | 12,544 |
| 41.133.144.0/20 | 41.133.144.0 | 41.133.191.255 | 12,288 |
| 41.134.64.0/19 | 41.134.64.0 | 41.134.104.255 | 10,496 |
| 197.80.162.0/23 | 197.80.162.0 | 197.80.202.255 | 10,496 |
| 41.134.106.0/23 | 41.134.106.0 | 41.134.139.255 | 8,704 |
| 197.83.192.0/19 | 197.83.192.0 | 197.83.225.255 | 8,704 |
| 41.135.224.0/19 | 41.135.224.0 | 41.135.255.255 | 8,192 |
Other ISPs in South Africa
| Name | ASN | Network type | IPv4 addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTNNS-AS | AS16637 | Mobile carrier | 2,471,424 |
| Telkom-Internet | AS37457 | Residential | 1,577,216 |
| SAIX-NET | AS5713 | Residential | 1,452,544 |
| MTNNS-1 | AS12091 | Mobile carrier | 1,245,696 |
| TENET-1 | AS2018 | Residential | 1,148,160 |
| INTERNET-SOLUTIONS | AS20011 | Residential | 775,936 |
How this page is built
The network type comes from the registry name of AS10474 (telecom, broadband, cable, mobile and similar words mark it as a residential ISP or carrier), ranges from iptoasn routing data, locations from DB-IP Lite (CC BY 4.0) and the datacenter check from the open datacenter list. Figures are recomputed daily.