Is 169.239.85.121:8080 a proxy? Yes.
169.239.85.121:8080 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 19% uptime with a high 1623ms response time, and was last checked 3 hr ago.
uptime
South AfricaHow this one compares
4,176 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 5,845 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 24.1% of the checks we send it.
19%
of 4,176 checks answered
Pool median 24.1%. 169.239.85.121:8080 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
1623ms
on its last response
Pool median 7,994ms, so this one is roughly 5x quicker than typical.
86
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 240,260 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 25 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 240,260 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 5,845 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on Mezobyte (Pty) LTD, and 1,470 in South Africa. 169.239.85.121:8080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1623ms it answers faster than the 4710ms median for South Africa proxies (about 34% of it).
How many free proxies are on Mezobyte (Pty) LTD
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 9 addresses on AS327943, which is 0.00% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. None of them are answering at the moment, though every one stays in the re-check rotation in case that changes.
- Answered before11%
- Never answered89%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045446,884
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650942,316
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,919
- 6M247AS900918,318
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,272
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,231
- AS327943 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 169.239.85.121:8080 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://169.239.85.121:8080 \
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 169.239.85.121:8080
169.239.85.121:8080 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 8080: HTTP, alternate
Port 8080 is the most common proxy port on the internet. It stands in for port 80, and unlike port 80 any program can open it without administrator rights. That single detail is why so much ends up here, the deliberate and the accidental alike.
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 169.239.85.121:8080 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.
4,176 checks, 811 answered
That is 19% of the time, measured since June 14, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
169.239.85.121:8080 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 169.239.85.121:8080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 14, 2026
- Last checked
- September 8, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 4,176
- Times it answered
- 811
- Spoke
- HTTP, HTTPS
19%
answered 811 of 4,176 checks
Questions about 169.239.85.121:8080
Is 169.239.85.121:8080 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 169.239.85.121:8080 answered HProxy's automated check 3 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 169.239.85.121?
It speaks HTTP, HTTPS, and our checks grade it transparent. The port is 8080. Point your client at 169.239.85.121:8080 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 169.239.85.121 located?
Traffic through it exits from Sasolburg, South Africa, on Mezobyte (Pty) LTD (AS327943). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 169.239.85.121:8080?
It answered in 1623ms 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 169.239.85.121:8080 been?
Across 78 days of tracking it answered 19% 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 169.239.85.121:8080?
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 Mezobyte (Pty) LTD?
None other than 169.239.85.121:8080 at the moment. AS327943 (Mezobyte (Pty) LTD) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in South Africa?
Yes, 1,470 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 4710ms 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.
169.239.85.121:8080 answers 19% 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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SOCKS4 · South Africa · 18% · 654ms
102.66.161.31:8888
HTTP · South Africa · 39% · 922ms
165.0.100.149:5678
SOCKS4 · South Africa · 22% · 1044ms
160.124.240.188:39771
HTTP · South Africa · 90% · 1483ms
196.251.193.116:8083
HTTP · South Africa · 13% · 1656ms
105.27.180.194:1080
SOCKS4 · South Africa · 24% · 1840ms
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.