IP transit in Amsterdam: flat-rate BGP from AS213900

IP transit in Amsterdam from AS213900

RS Computers LLC is a network and hosting company from Kosovo that operates AS213900, with IP transit points of presence in Amsterdam and Skopje. In Amsterdam our router sits in Qupra Datacenter, and we sell BGP transit there in three flat-rate tiers of 1, 5 and 10 Gbit/s, each on a 10 Gbit/s port, IPv4 and IPv6, full table or default route. This page explains how the Amsterdam PoP works and what to check before you move traffic to it; both PoPs are compared on the main IP transit page.

Who takes transit in Amsterdam

• ISPs that want a second upstream, or a first one in Western Europe, without signing for a year.
• Hosting networks with their own address space that need to announce it from the Netherlands.
• CDN and streaming nodes that push steady traffic all day.
• Enterprises and campuses with their own ASN and prefixes that want to multihome.

If you need a server rather than a BGP session, see our VPS in the Netherlands, also in Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam PoP: Qupra, with a hand-off at Nikhef

Our Amsterdam router is in Qupra Datacenter, Nieuwe Hemweg 26, 1013 CX Amsterdam. Qupra is a carrier-neutral telecom and fibre exchange facility with dark fibre to Nikhef, Global Switch and the Digital Realty tower. If your equipment is in Qupra, a cross-connect to our rack lands on a 10 Gbit/s port set to the tier you buy, and the BGP session runs straight on that link.

If your router is in Nikhef Housing, Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam, you do not need to move it. We take a cross-connect at Nikhef and carry it to our PoP over our own link; that transport is quoted per order, with no setup fee from us. Nikhef is one of the largest internet hubs in Europe and home of AMS-IX, NL-ix and more than 200 networks. From another Amsterdam building, ask us about a cross-connect to Qupra, or use a tunnel. With any cross-connect, the data centre may bill its own cabling; we add nothing to it.

Flat rate vs 95th percentile billing

Much IP transit in Amsterdam is sold as a commit measured at the 95th percentile. The provider samples your port every 5 minutes, sorts a month of samples, discards the top 5% and bills the highest remaining value; in a 30-day month that drops about 36 hours of peak traffic (Wikipedia, burstable billing). Traffic above the commit is billed as overage per Mbit/s, and many Amsterdam transit pages publish no price at all.

A worked example. A 30-day month has 8,640 five-minute samples, so the top 5% is 432 samples. Say a network carries 600 Mbit/s most of the day and 1,400 Mbit/s for three hours every evening. Those peaks fill 36 samples a day, 1,080 in the month, well over the 432 that are discarded, so the billable rate is 1,400 Mbit/s, not 600. On a 1,000 Mbit/s commit, 400 Mbit/s is billed as overage.

Flat rate removes the measurement. RS Computers sells every tier at a fixed monthly price for the port speed: nothing is sampled, there is no commit and no overage. You size the tier to your peak, not your average: the network above belongs on the 5 Gbit/s tier, and its invoice is the same whether the evening peak reaches 1,400 Mbit/s or 4,000. Short, rare peaks favour the 95th percentile; traffic that stays high for hours favours flat rate.

BGP transit over a tunnel to Amsterdam

A network outside Amsterdam can still take transit from our Amsterdam PoP. We terminate a tunnel on our edge at Qupra and run the BGP session through it: your prefixes are announced through AS213900 in Amsterdam, and the traffic reaches you over your existing internet connection. Supported tunnel types are GRE, IPIP, IPsec, WireGuard, VXLAN, L2TPv3, EoIP and OpenVPN, or anything else that carries IP. A tunnel needs no hardware or cabling and costs nothing beyond the port.

Throughput is capped by your own uplink to Amsterdam, latency to the tunnel endpoint adds to every path, and encapsulation lowers the MTU, so clamp TCP MSS; we help with both. If your network is in the Balkans, IP transit in Skopje may be the shorter tunnel, at the same price. You can move from a tunnel to a cross-connect later without a new agreement.

What you need to order

1. A public ASN.
2. IPv4 and/or IPv6 prefixes with IRR route objects, and ROAs if you can. RS Computers validates every announcement against IRR and RPKI before accepting it, so check both before you write to us.
3. A router that speaks BGP and, for tunnel delivery, the tunnel protocol you want to use.
4. Your choice of tier and delivery: cross-connect at Qupra, hand-off at Nikhef, or tunnel.

Send these on Telegram or to info@rscomputers-ks.com. We reply with our BGP peer addresses and the tunnel endpoint or cross-connect details.

Test the routes before you move traffic

Transit from RS Computers is month to month with no setup fee, so the cheapest way to judge the Amsterdam PoP is one month on one port:

1. Take the full table and give our routes a lower local preference than your current upstream, so you receive them without using them.
2. Compare AS paths and traceroutes to the destinations that matter to you.
3. Check that your prefixes are visible through AS213900 at public route collectors, for example with RIPEstat.
4. Raise the local preference for a set of destinations, or change your prepends, and watch the traffic shift.
5. If the routes do what you need, renew, move up a tier or add Skopje; if not, stop at the end of the month.

IP transit ports are covered by our 99% monthly uptime service level agreement, with a service credit below 99% and a full refund for the month below 95%. Support answers Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00, and the NOC watches the network 24/7.

Amsterdam and AMS-IX

Amsterdam owes much of its place in European networking to AMS-IX. It was set up in 1994, when academic institutions at Amsterdam Science Park wanted to exchange data directly, and its equipment now sits in 16 data centres across the Netherlands (AMS-IX, 30 years of AMS-IX). When we checked in October 2026, the AMS-IX website listed 903 connected networks and a traffic peak of 15.095 Tb/s.

At an exchange you peer with the networks present on it; transit gives you routes to the whole internet. IP transit from RS Computers does not include an AMS-IX port, but since AMS-IX and our hand-off are both at Nikhef, a network with a rack there can order its exchange port and a cross-connect to us in the same building.