Is 172.232.173.157:3128 a proxy? Yes.
172.232.173.157:3128 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United States. It holds a spotty 38% uptime with a high 13086ms response time, and last answered our checker 11 min ago.
uptime
United StatesOther ports on this IP
172.232.173.157 is answering on 1 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 172.232.173.157 and have run 322 checks against them since June 14, 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 172.232.173.157:3128 at 29.7% across 192 checks
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 4,923 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 34.5% of the checks we send it.
38%
of 151 checks answered
Pool median 34.5%. 172.232.173.157:3128 is in the better half.
13086ms
on its last response
Pool median 6,102ms.
123
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 396,772 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 22 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 396,772 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 4,923 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 12 other free proxies on Akamai, and 24,207 in United States. 172.232.173.157:3128 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 13086ms it is slower than the 2073ms median for United States proxies.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is the 48th 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 1,314 addresses on AS63949, which is 0.14% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 48th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 13 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 now1%
- Answered before16%
- Never answered83%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900982,354
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650950,075
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,933
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,281
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,394
39 networks between
48Akamai Technologies, Inc.AS639491,314
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 172.232.173.157:3128 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://172.232.173.157:3128 \
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 172.232.173.157:3128
172.232.173.157:3128 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 3128: Squid default
Port 3128 is the default for Squid, the most widely installed proxy software in the world. Most addresses published on 3128 are Squid servers that were meant to serve one office or one network and ended up reachable by everybody.
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 172.232.173.157:3128 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.
151 checks, 57 answered
That is 38% 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
172.232.173.157:3128 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 172.232.173.157:3128, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 14, 2026
- Last checked
- October 15, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 151
- Times it answered
- 57
- Spoke
- HTTP
38%
answered 57 of 151 checks
Questions about 172.232.173.157:3128
Is 172.232.173.157:3128 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 172.232.173.157:3128 answered HProxy's automated check 11 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 172.232.173.157?
It speaks HTTP, and our checks grade it transparent. The port is 3128. Point your client at 172.232.173.157:3128 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 172.232.173.157 located?
Traffic through it exits from Tukwila, United States, on Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AS63949). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 172.232.173.157:3128?
It answered in 13086ms 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 172.232.173.157:3128 been?
Across 54 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 172.232.173.157:3128?
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 Akamai?
12 other free proxies are live on Akamai (AS63949) in our pool right now, alongside 172.232.173.157:3128. 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 United States?
Yes, 24,207 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 2073ms 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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Free proxies fail. This is what that looks like.
172.232.173.157:3128 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.
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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.