Is 16.28.29.244:22992 a proxy? Yes.

16.28.29.244:22992 is a public HTTPS proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 12% uptime with a high 1431ms response time, and last answered our checker 5 hr ago.

Live now
12%

uptime

Latency1431ms
ProtocolHTTPSElite
Last answered5 hr ago

Other ports on this IP

16.28.29.244 is answering on 71 ports right now.

Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 214 of them on 16.28.29.244 and have run 364,737 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.

90% of the ports on this IP have answered192 of 214 ports on 16.28.29.244 have completed at least one connection
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Best responding ports

Best on this IP is 16.28.29.244:53627 at 14.4% across 3,749 checks

Ranked by uptime
PortUptimeAnsweredStatus
5362714.4%541 / 3,749Not responding
2225214.3%458 / 3,204In the live pool
5666714.2%500 / 3,518In the live pool
4942413.7%462 / 3,384Not responding
5981813.6%493 / 3,627In the live pool
1147813.6%465 / 3,425Not responding
2318513.6%462 / 3,407Not responding
2871513.5%459 / 3,390Not responding
5200213.5%479 / 3,540In the live pool
4876113.5%466 / 3,459Not responding
1206513.5%469 / 3,485Not responding
5808013.4%536 / 3,987In the live pool

See all 214 ports on 16.28.29.244

How this one compares

2,996 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 7,163 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 30% of the checks we send it.

12%

of 2,996 checks answered

▲ median 30%

Pool median 30%. 16.28.29.244:22992 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.

1431ms

on its last response

▲ median 5,199ms

Pool median 5,199ms, so this one is roughly 4x quicker than typical.

79

days tracked, still in the live pool

Of the 367,264 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 23 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 367,264 endpoints that stopped working.

Proxies that diedmedian 23 days
020406080

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 23 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 7,163 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 5,199ms
05,00010k15k20k
1431ms puts this one at the fast end of that spread.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds 98 other free proxies on Amazon, and 385 in South Africa. 16.28.29.244:22992 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1431ms it is slower than the 1318ms median for South Africa proxies.

Amazon.com, Inc. is the 5th 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 48,406 addresses on AS16509, which is 5.4% of every address in the database and a substantial share of everything HProxy tracks. That makes it the 5th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 99 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 now<1%
  • Answered before80%
  • Never answered19%
99 of the 48,406 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-ASAS213790227,474
  2. 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
  3. 3M247AS900960,021
  4. 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
  5. 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650948,330
  6. 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,929
  7. 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,276
  8. 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,338
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

How to use this proxy

Route a request through 16.28.29.244:22992 over HTTPS. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.

bash

curl -x https://16.28.29.244:22992 \

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 16.28.29.244:22992

16.28.29.244:22992 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.

  1. Port 22992: 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 16.28.29.244:22992 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 HTTPS.

  3. 2,996 checks, 374 answered

    That is 12% of the time, measured since July 16, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  4. It is being re-tested continuously

    16.28.29.244:22992 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 16.28.29.244:22992, and nothing it does not.

First seen
July 16, 2026
Last checked
October 3, 2026
Next check due
continuously
Checks run
2,996
Times it answered
374
Spoke
HTTPS

12%

answered 374 of 2,996 checks

Is 16.28.29.244:22992 a proxy? Yes: a live free HTTPS proxy in South Africa answering 12% of HProxy's checks.
16.28.29.244:22992 at a glance. The card renders from its live record, so a saved copy goes stale while this page stays current.

Questions about 16.28.29.244:22992

Is 16.28.29.244:22992 a working proxy right now?

Yes. 16.28.29.244:22992 answered HProxy's automated check 5 hr 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 16.28.29.244?

It speaks HTTPS, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 22992. Point your client at 16.28.29.244:22992 over https to route a request through it.

Where is 16.28.29.244 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 16.28.29.244:22992?

It answered in 1431ms 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 16.28.29.244:22992 been?

Across 80 days of tracking it answered 12% 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 16.28.29.244:22992?

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?

98 other free proxies are live on Amazon (AS16509) in our pool right now, alongside 16.28.29.244:22992. 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, 385 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 1318ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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