Is 16.28.101.55:21005 a proxy? Yes.

16.28.101.55:21005 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 16% uptime, and was last checked 6 h ago.

Live now
16%

uptime

Latencynot measured
ProtocolHTTP
Last checked6 h ago

Other ports on this IP

16.28.101.55 is answering on 138 ports right now.

Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 147 of them on 16.28.101.55 and have run 145,185 checks against them since July 1, 2026. When an address turns up on public lists across this many ports, each port is published as its own entry, so each one gets its own record here.

91% of the ports on this IP have answered134 of 147 ports on 16.28.101.55 have completed at least one connection
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Best responding ports

Best on this IP is 16.28.101.55:58080 at 19.1% across 2,081 checks

Ranked by uptime
PortUptimeAnsweredStatus
5808019.1%397 / 2,081In the live pool
4090617.4%413 / 2,372In the live pool
830217.3%458 / 2,645In the live pool
505016.9%408 / 2,414In the live pool
658716.7%298 / 1,786In the live pool
828216.5%397 / 2,399In the live pool
2850016.4%312 / 1,902In the live pool
3964216.3%388 / 2,380In the live pool
2226216.3%384 / 2,356In the live pool
498316.2%376 / 2,321In the live pool
4264016.0%362 / 2,259In the live pool
208916.0%326 / 2,039In the live pool

See all 147 ports on 16.28.101.55

How 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 4,558 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 15.5% of the checks we send it.

16%

of 1,068 checks answered

median 15.5%

Pool median 15.5%. 16.28.101.55:21005 is in the better half.

1,068

real connection attempts

Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.

19

days tracked, still in the live pool

Of the 195,398 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.

What a normal free proxy looks likeTwo distributions from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page. Tails trimmed at the 5th and 95th percentile.

How long one lasts

Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 195,398 endpoints that stopped working.

Proxies that diedmedian 28 days
0204060

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 4,558 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 3,203ms
05,00010k15k20k
The spread runs from 295ms to 16,360ms across the same list.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds 1,949 other free proxies on Amazon, and 305 in South Africa. 16.28.101.55:21005 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.

Amazon.com, Inc. is the 2nd 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 29,346 addresses on AS16509, which is 4.9% of every address in the database and a substantial share of everything HProxy tracks. That makes it the 2nd largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 1,950 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.

AS16509 in the public proxy database
  • Answering now7%
  • Answered before73%
  • Never answered20%
1,950 of the 29,346 addresses HProxy holds on this network are answering right now.Source: HProxy verification engine
The networks that host the most free proxiesAddresses in HProxy's public proxy list, by network. AS16509 is marked.
  1. 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
  2. 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650929,206
  3. 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,186
  4. 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
  5. 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,141
  6. 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,711
  7. 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
  8. 8ChinanetAS41348,421
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

How to use this proxy

Route a request through 16.28.101.55:21005 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.

bash

curl -x http://16.28.101.55:21005 \

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 16.28.101.55:21005

16.28.101.55:21005 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.

  1. Port 21005: 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.

  2. 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 16.28.101.55:21005 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.

  3. 1,068 checks, 167 answered

    That is 16% of the time, measured since July 31, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  4. It is being re-tested continuously

    16.28.101.55:21005 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 16.28.101.55:21005, and nothing it does not.

First seen
July 31, 2026
Last checked
August 19, 2026
Next check due
continuously
Checks run
1,068
Times it answered
167
Spoke
HTTP

16%

answered 167 of 1,068 checks

Is 16.28.101.55:21005 a proxy? Yes: a live free HTTP proxy in South Africa answering 16% of HProxy's checks.
16.28.101.55:21005 at a glance. The card renders from its live record, so a saved copy goes stale while this page stays current.

Questions about 16.28.101.55:21005

Is 16.28.101.55:21005 a working proxy right now?

Yes. 16.28.101.55:21005 answered HProxy's automated check 6 h 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 16.28.101.55?

It speaks HTTP. The port is 21005. Point your client at 16.28.101.55:21005 over http to route a request through it.

Where is 16.28.101.55 located?

Traffic through it exits from Cape Town, South Africa, on Amazon.com, Inc. (AS16509). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.

How reliable has 16.28.101.55:21005 been?

Across 20 days of tracking it answered 16% 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 16.28.101.55:21005?

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 Amazon?

1,949 other free proxies are live on Amazon (AS16509) in our pool right now, alongside 16.28.101.55:21005. 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, 305 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 686ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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