Is 102.66.6.56:9999 a proxy? Yes.
102.66.6.56:9999 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 44% uptime with a high 1012ms response time, and was last checked 13 min ago.
uptime
South AfricaHow this one compares
Reliable enough to sit in the better half of everything we are watching.
Every free proxy list quotes an uptime figure. Almost none of them tell you what a normal one looks like, so here is ours: across the 9,118 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 34.4% of the checks we send it.
44%
of 295 checks answered
Pool median 34.4%. 102.66.6.56:9999 is in the better half.
1012ms
on its last response
Pool median 2,557ms, so this one is roughly 3x quicker than typical.
6
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 201,660 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.
What normal looks like
Every number above is measured against these two.
A percentage on a proxy list means nothing without the shape of the thing it came from. These are the two distributions the rest of this page compares against, drawn from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page.
How long one lasts
Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 201,660 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 9,118 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 2 other free proxies on HERO Telecoms, and 1,506 in South Africa. 102.66.6.56:9999 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1012ms it answers faster than the 1751ms median for South Africa proxies (about 58% of it).
HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD is the 185th largest source of free proxies we have ever measured.
Open proxies cluster rather than spreading evenly across the internet. Hosting providers and cloud platforms run enormous numbers of near-identical servers, so a handful of networks end up carrying a disproportionate share of every public proxy list, including ours. HProxy tracks 221 addresses on AS328471, which is 0.03% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 185th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 3 of them are answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.
- Answering now1%
- Answered before7%
- Never answered91%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943757,626
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045438,786
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650937,133
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,890
- 6M247AS900917,540
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,258
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,171
176 networks between
185HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTDAS328471221
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 102.66.6.56:9999 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://102.66.6.56:9999 \
https://api.ipify.org?format=json
Not a terminal person? Pick your device and we walk you through it, nothing assumed.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 102.66.6.56:9999
102.66.6.56:9999 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 9999: Registered port range
This port sits in the middle range, where any ordinary program can listen without special permission. The number itself carries no reserved meaning, which tells you somebody picked it on purpose instead of accepting a default.
Every check is a real connection
HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens a real connection to 102.66.6.56:9999 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as unreachable, and plenty of working proxies take half a minute to reply. Anything that does not answer in that budget counts as a failure and is recorded as one, which is why the percentage on this page moves rather than sitting at a marketing number. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, which is how we know it spoke HTTP and HTTPS.
295 checks, 129 answered
That is 44% of the time, measured since August 26, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
102.66.6.56:9999 is in the live rotation, so it is re-tested continuously rather than on a daily cycle. If it stops answering it is marked down immediately, and if it stays down for 3 days it moves into the public proxy database with its full record intact. Nothing is deleted at any point.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 102.66.6.56:9999, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 26, 2026
- Last checked
- September 1, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 295
- Times it answered
- 129
- Spoke
- HTTP, HTTPS
44%
answered 129 of 295 checks
Questions about 102.66.6.56:9999
Is 102.66.6.56:9999 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 102.66.6.56:9999 answered HProxy's automated check 13 min ago and is in the live free proxy pool as we publish this page. It is re-tested every few minutes, so open this page again for its current state rather than trusting a copy of it.
What kind of proxy is 102.66.6.56?
It speaks HTTP, HTTPS, and our checks grade it transparent. The port is 9999. Point your client at 102.66.6.56:9999 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 102.66.6.56 located?
Traffic through it exits from South Africa, on HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD (AS328471). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 102.66.6.56:9999?
It answered in 1012ms on the last check. Free public proxies are shared, so real-world speed varies with how many other people are using it at the same moment.
How reliable has 102.66.6.56:9999 been?
Across 7 days of tracking it answered 44% of our checks. The chart on this page shows every day we have recorded for it, including the days it was down.
Is it safe to use 102.66.6.56:9999?
Treat it the way you would any public proxy: it is operated by someone we have no relationship with, it is shared with strangers, and anything you send unencrypted over it can be read. Fine for a quick geo check or a scrape of public data, never for logins, payments or anything private.
How many free proxies are on HERO Telecoms?
2 other free proxies are live on HERO Telecoms (AS328471) in our pool right now, alongside 102.66.6.56:9999. Networks that host one open proxy usually host several, which is why the whole AS is worth browsing rather than just this address.
Are there other free proxies in South Africa?
Yes, 1,506 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 1751ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
Where to go next
Upgrade to the paid network
Free proxies fail. This is what that looks like.
102.66.6.56:9999 answers 44% of the time, and that is ordinary for a public proxy. Nothing here is a service anybody sells you, which is why the numbers swing and why the list turns over constantly.
Other live free proxies
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102.66.161.10:8888
HTTP · South Africa · 39% · 0ms
102.66.161.31:8888
HTTP · South Africa · 38% · 0ms
102.66.176.109:9999
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About this list & IP removal
Every proxy here is aggregated from publicly available sources. We do not scan or collect these IP addresses ourselves: we verify entries that are already public (live status, latency, uptime) and store nothing else about the devices behind them. The list is provided as-is, with no warranty, for lawful use only, on the basis of our legitimate interest in a free, transparent proxy directory (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Never route passwords or sensitive data through a public proxy. If an IP address is yours and you'd like it removed, email legal@hproxy.com and we'll take it down (Art. 21 GDPR). Full details on the report abuse page.