Is 16.28.101.55:51273 a proxy? Yes.
16.28.101.55:51273 is a public SOCKS4 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 10% uptime with a high 512ms response time, and was last checked 19 min ago.
uptime
South AfricaOther ports on this IP
16.28.101.55 is answering on 147 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 166 of them on 16.28.101.55 and have run 178,093 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.
Best responding ports
Best on this IP is 16.28.101.55:58080 at 18.4% across 2,310 checks
| Port | Uptime | Answered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 58080 | 18.4% | 426 / 2,310 | In the live pool |
| 40906 | 16.9% | 440 / 2,601 | In the live pool |
| 8302 | 16.8% | 483 / 2,876 | In the live pool |
| 4983 | 16.4% | 419 / 2,555 | In the live pool |
| 39642 | 16.0% | 418 / 2,608 | In the live pool |
| 28500 | 16.0% | 342 / 2,134 | In the live pool |
| 5050 | 16.0% | 422 / 2,640 | In the live pool |
| 22262 | 15.9% | 412 / 2,585 | In the live pool |
| 8282 | 15.9% | 418 / 2,625 | In the live pool |
| 42640 | 15.8% | 394 / 2,490 | In the live pool |
| 52203 | 15.6% | 333 / 2,130 | In the live pool |
| 20722 | 15.5% | 400 / 2,574 | In the live pool |
How this one compares
227 checks in, its uptime is ordinary for a free proxy.
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 3,605 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 14.6% of the checks we send it.
10%
of 227 checks answered
Pool median 14.6%. 16.28.101.55:51273 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
512ms
on its last response
Pool median 2,530ms, so this one is roughly 5x quicker than typical.
4
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 196,722 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 196,722 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 3,605 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 1,767 other free proxies on Amazon, and 1,208 in South Africa. 16.28.101.55:51273 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 512ms it answers faster than the 621ms median for South Africa proxies (about 82% of it).
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 30,904 addresses on AS16509, which is 5.1% 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. 1,768 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 now6%
- Answered before75%
- Never answered19%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
- 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650930,901
- 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,187
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,142
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,730
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,437
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 16.28.101.55:51273 over SOCKS4. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x socks4://16.28.101.55:51273 \
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 16.28.101.55:51273
16.28.101.55:51273 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 51273: Ephemeral port range
This is a throwaway port number, the kind a computer hands out for a few minutes and then takes back. Anything published on one tends to move or disappear when its host restarts, which is a large part of why public proxy lists rot so fast.
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 16.28.101.55:51273 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 SOCKS4 and SOCKS5.
227 checks, 22 answered
That is 10% of the time, measured since August 19, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
16.28.101.55:51273 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 16.28.101.55:51273, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 19, 2026
- Last checked
- August 23, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 227
- Times it answered
- 22
- Spoke
- SOCKS4, SOCKS5
10%
answered 22 of 227 checks
Questions about 16.28.101.55:51273
Is 16.28.101.55:51273 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 16.28.101.55:51273 answered HProxy's automated check 19 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 16.28.101.55?
It speaks SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 51273. Point your client at 16.28.101.55:51273 over socks4 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 fast is 16.28.101.55:51273?
It answered in 512ms 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 16.28.101.55:51273 been?
Across 5 days of tracking it answered 10% 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 16.28.101.55:51273?
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?
1,767 other free proxies are live on Amazon (AS16509) in our pool right now, alongside 16.28.101.55:51273. 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, 1,208 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 621ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
Where to go next
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16.28.101.55:51273 answers 10% 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.
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