Is 172.86.84.97:1083 a proxy? Yes.
172.86.84.97:1083 is a public SOCKS5 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United States. It holds a spotty 6% uptime with a high 5384ms response time, and last answered our checker 16 hr ago.
uptime
United StatesOther ports on this IP
172.86.84.97 is answering on 3 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 4 of them on 172.86.84.97 and have run 2,943 checks against them since September 28, 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 172.86.84.97:1072 at 17.7% across 293 checks
How this one compares
938 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 6,404 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 36.3% of the checks we send it.
6%
of 938 checks answered
Pool median 36.3%. 172.86.84.97:1083 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
5384ms
on its last response
Pool median 5,731ms.
34
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 428,998 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 428,998 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 6,404 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on RouterHosting, and 14,753 in United States. 172.86.84.97:1083 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 5384ms it is slower than the 1994ms median for United States proxies.
RouterHosting LLC is the 204th 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 227 addresses on AS14956, which is 0.02% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 204th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. None of them are answering at the moment, though every one stays in the re-check rotation in case that changes.
- Answered before64%
- Never answered36%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900996,477
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650955,927
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,941
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,286
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,463
195 networks between
204RouterHosting LLCAS14956227
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 172.86.84.97:1083 over SOCKS5. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x socks5://172.86.84.97:1083 \
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 172.86.84.97:1083
172.86.84.97:1083 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 1083: 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 172.86.84.97:1083 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 SOCKS5.
938 checks, 58 answered
That is 6% of the time, measured since September 28, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
172.86.84.97:1083 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 172.86.84.97:1083, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 28, 2026
- Last checked
- November 1, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 938
- Times it answered
- 58
- Spoke
- SOCKS5
6%
answered 58 of 938 checks
Questions about 172.86.84.97:1083
Is 172.86.84.97:1083 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 172.86.84.97:1083 answered HProxy's automated check 16 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 172.86.84.97?
It speaks SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 1083. Point your client at 172.86.84.97:1083 over socks5 to route a request through it.
Where is 172.86.84.97 located?
Traffic through it exits from Dallas, United States, on RouterHosting LLC (AS14956). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 172.86.84.97:1083?
It answered in 5384ms 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 172.86.84.97:1083 been?
Across 35 days of tracking it answered 6% 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 172.86.84.97:1083?
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 RouterHosting?
None other than 172.86.84.97:1083 at the moment. AS14956 (RouterHosting) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in United States?
Yes, 14,753 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 1994ms 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.
172.86.84.97:1083 answers 6% 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.