Is 169.255.78.190:8865 a proxy? Yes.
169.255.78.190:8865 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 38% uptime with a high 2918ms response time, and last answered our checker 2 min ago.
uptime
South AfricaHow this one compares
4,945 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 6,109 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 41% of the checks we send it.
38%
of 4,945 checks answered
Pool median 41%. 169.255.78.190:8865 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
2918ms
on its last response
Pool median 5,163ms, so this one is roughly 2x quicker than typical.
171
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 428,279 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 20 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 428,279 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 6,109 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 7 other free proxies on HERO Telecoms, and 378 in South Africa. 169.255.78.190:8865 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 2918ms it is slower than the 1670ms median for South Africa proxies.
HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD is the 209th 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 223 addresses on AS328471, which is 0.02% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 209th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 8 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 now4%
- Answered before7%
- Never answered90%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900996,419
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650955,636
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,941
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,285
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,458
200 networks between
209HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTDAS328471223
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 169.255.78.190:8865 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://169.255.78.190:8865 \
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 169.255.78.190:8865
169.255.78.190:8865 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 8865: 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 169.255.78.190:8865 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.
4,945 checks, 1,899 answered
That is 38% of the time, measured since May 13, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
169.255.78.190:8865 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 169.255.78.190:8865, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- May 13, 2026
- Last checked
- October 31, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 4,945
- Times it answered
- 1,899
- Spoke
- HTTP, HTTPS
38%
answered 1,899 of 4,945 checks
Questions about 169.255.78.190:8865
Is 169.255.78.190:8865 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 169.255.78.190:8865 answered HProxy's automated check 2 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 169.255.78.190?
It speaks HTTP, HTTPS, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 8865. Point your client at 169.255.78.190:8865 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 169.255.78.190 located?
Traffic through it exits from George, South Africa, on HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD (AS328471). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 169.255.78.190:8865?
It answered in 2918ms 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 169.255.78.190:8865 been?
Across 90 days of tracking it answered 38% 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 169.255.78.190:8865?
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?
7 other free proxies are live on HERO Telecoms (AS328471) in our pool right now, alongside 169.255.78.190:8865. 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, 378 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 1670ms 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.
169.255.78.190:8865 answers 38% 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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213.172.130.3:9999
HTTP · South Africa · 56% · 6907ms
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HTTPS · South Africa · 32% · 7604ms
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HTTP · South Africa · 52% · 10168ms
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.