Is 18.162.230.142:5266 a proxy? Yes.

18.162.230.142:5266 is a public SOCKS5 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Hong Kong SAR China. It holds a solid 78% uptime with a high 1235ms response time, and was last checked 9 min ago.

Live now
78%

uptime

Latency1235ms
ProtocolSOCKS5Elite
Last checked9 min ago

Other ports on this IP

18.162.230.142 is answering on 23 ports right now.

Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 24 of them on 18.162.230.142 and have run 2,256 checks against them since August 29, 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.

96% of the ports on this IP have answered23 of 24 ports on 18.162.230.142 have completed at least one connection
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Best responding ports

Best on this IP is 18.162.230.142:3128 at 93.3% across 253 checks

Ranked by uptime
PortUptimeAnsweredStatus
312893.3%236 / 253In the live pool
5808092.3%143 / 155In the live pool
2670391.1%144 / 158In the live pool
808089.5%222 / 248In the live pool
3652988.5%139 / 157In the live pool
2335787.5%91 / 104In the live pool
4595587.1%135 / 155In the live pool
669687.0%127 / 146In the live pool
1759086.5%128 / 148In the live pool
889086.5%134 / 155In the live pool
404086.1%87 / 101In the live pool
4550684.0%121 / 144In the live pool

See all 24 ports on 18.162.230.142

How this one compares

Reliable enough to sit in the top quarter 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 15,267 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 23% of the checks we send it.

78%

of 60 checks answered

median 23%

Pool median 23%. 18.162.230.142:5266 is in the top quarter.

1235ms

on its last response

median 1,622ms

Pool median 1,622ms.

2

days tracked, still in the live pool

Of the 207,863 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 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 207,863 endpoints that stopped working.

Proxies that diedmedian 28 days
0204060

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 15,267 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 1,622ms
020k40k60k
The spread runs from 186ms to 53,725ms across the same list.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds 7,045 other free proxies on Amazon, and 2,009 in Hong Kong SAR China. 18.162.230.142:5266 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1235ms it answers faster than the 1293ms median for Hong Kong SAR China proxies (about 96% of it).

Amazon.com, Inc. is the 4th 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 39,453 addresses on AS16509, which is 5.2% of every address in the database and a substantial share of everything HProxy tracks. That makes it the 4th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 7,046 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 now18%
  • Answered before68%
  • Never answered14%
7,046 of the 39,453 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 LLCAS1943779,169
  3. 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045440,905
  4. 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650939,413
  5. 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,902
  6. 6M247AS900917,998
  7. 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,269
  8. 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,186
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

How to use this proxy

Route a request through 18.162.230.142:5266 over SOCKS5. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.

bash

curl -x socks5://18.162.230.142:5266 \

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 18.162.230.142:5266

18.162.230.142:5266 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.

  1. Port 5266: 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 18.162.230.142:5266 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.

  3. 60 checks, 47 answered

    That is 78% of the time, measured since September 1, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  4. It is being re-tested continuously

    18.162.230.142:5266 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 18.162.230.142:5266, and nothing it does not.

First seen
September 1, 2026
Last checked
September 3, 2026
Next check due
continuously
Checks run
60
Times it answered
47
Spoke
SOCKS5

78%

answered 47 of 60 checks

Is 18.162.230.142:5266 a proxy? Yes: a live free SOCKS5 proxy in Hong Kong SAR China answering 78% of HProxy's checks.
18.162.230.142:5266 at a glance. The card renders from its live record, so a saved copy goes stale while this page stays current.

Questions about 18.162.230.142:5266

Is 18.162.230.142:5266 a working proxy right now?

Yes. 18.162.230.142:5266 answered HProxy's automated check 9 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 18.162.230.142?

It speaks SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 5266. Point your client at 18.162.230.142:5266 over socks5 to route a request through it.

Where is 18.162.230.142 located?

Traffic through it exits from Hong Kong SAR China, on Amazon.com, Inc. (AS16509). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.

How fast is 18.162.230.142:5266?

It answered in 1235ms 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 18.162.230.142:5266 been?

Across 3 days of tracking it answered 78% 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 18.162.230.142:5266?

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?

7,045 other free proxies are live on Amazon (AS16509) in our pool right now, alongside 18.162.230.142:5266. 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 Hong Kong SAR China?

Yes, 2,009 free proxies are exiting from Hong Kong SAR China in our pool right now, answering in 1293ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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