Rhode Island · network infrastructure
PeeringDB records five facilities in Rhode Island, all of them in Providence, holding ten network presences. Prov.net PVD2 (304 Carpenter) has five of those and Crown Castle Providence (235 Promenade) has three, while two of the five sites record no networks. Rhode Island has no internet exchange in the snapshot.
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there.
| Facility | City | Networks present |
|---|---|---|
| Prov.net PVD2 (304 Carpenter) | Providence | 5 |
| Crown Castle Providence (235 Promenade) | Providence | 3 |
| Prov.net PVD1 (1155 Westminster) | Providence | 2 |
| Crown Castle Providence (300 Carpenter) | Providence | 0 |
| Prov.net 935 | Providence | 0 |
What a Rhode Island IP address tells you
Every facility the snapshot records in Rhode Island is in Providence. Prov.net PVD2 (304 Carpenter) has five networks, Crown Castle Providence (235 Promenade) has three and Prov.net PVD1 (1155 Westminster) has two, which accounts for all ten presences in the state. Crown Castle Providence (300 Carpenter) and Prov.net 935 are listed with none. There is no exchange in the record and the peer count is zero, so networks in Providence reach each other through transit or at exchanges outside Rhode Island.
A Rhode Island IP address carries whatever the operator registered for the block it belongs to. Geolocation databases read that registration, so a prefix used across a wider area can resolve to the one address on file. Mobile traffic pools even more tightly. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon each announce subscriber traffic from a handful of mobile ASNs, and a phone connected in Providence can exit through a gateway registered in another state and read as being there.
The origin ASN and the netname on the prefix are worth more than a city field. Whois shows who holds the block and where it was registered, and an ASN from the mobile ranges above marks the connection as a handset rather than a machine in one of the Providence sites. An address only reads as Rhode Island when the operator that holds the block registered it to a Rhode Island address.
Mobile carriers in the United States
A mobile address anywhere in Rhode Island is routed by one of the country's operators. Each entry lists the operator's ASNs so you can check which network an address belongs to.
Questions
How many data centres are in Rhode Island?
The snapshot lists five facilities, all in Providence, with ten network presences between them. Prov.net PVD2 (304 Carpenter) has five networks and Crown Castle Providence (235 Promenade) has three. Two of the five, Crown Castle Providence (300 Carpenter) and Prov.net 935, record none.
Is there an internet exchange in Rhode Island?
No. The record shows no exchange in the state and no peers, so the networks present in Providence exchange traffic over transit or take it to an exchange in another state when they want to hand it to each other.
Can I get an IP address in Rhode Island?
Whether an address reads as Rhode Island depends on how the operator registered the block. Geolocation follows that registration rather than a customer request, and mobile ranges assigned across a wide area regularly resolve somewhere other than where the device is connected.
Sources
- PeeringDB - facilities, network presence and exchange participants, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - the operators routing mobile addresses in this country