Is 188.40.250.20:8118 a proxy? Yes.
188.40.250.20:8118 is a public HTTPS proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Germany. It holds a spotty 26% uptime with a high 7551ms response time, and last answered our checker 30 min ago.
uptime
GermanyHow this one compares
478 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 4,337 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 33% of the checks we send it.
26%
of 478 checks answered
Pool median 33%. 188.40.250.20:8118 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
7551ms
on its last response
Pool median 6,278ms.
124
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 378,020 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 23 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 378,020 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 4,337 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 40 other free proxies on Hetzner, and 271 in Germany. 188.40.250.20:8118 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 7551ms it is slower than the 2098ms median for Germany proxies.
HETZNER-AS is the 15th 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 5,758 addresses on AS24940, which is 0.64% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 15th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 41 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 before14%
- Never answered86%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900963,580
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650949,159
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,930
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,279
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,358
6 networks between
15HETZNER-ASAS249405,758
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 188.40.250.20:8118 over HTTPS. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x https://188.40.250.20:8118 \
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 188.40.250.20:8118
188.40.250.20:8118 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 8118: Privoxy default
Port 8118 is the default for Privoxy, a filtering proxy most often paired with Tor. Finding it suggests somebody built a privacy setup on purpose, rather than leaving a door open by accident.
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 188.40.250.20:8118 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 HTTPS.
478 checks, 125 answered
That is 26% of the time, measured since June 5, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
188.40.250.20:8118 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 188.40.250.20:8118, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 5, 2026
- Last checked
- October 7, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 478
- Times it answered
- 125
- Spoke
- HTTPS
26%
answered 125 of 478 checks
Questions about 188.40.250.20:8118
Is 188.40.250.20:8118 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 188.40.250.20:8118 answered HProxy's automated check 30 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 188.40.250.20?
It speaks HTTPS, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 8118. Point your client at 188.40.250.20:8118 over https to route a request through it.
Where is 188.40.250.20 located?
Traffic through it exits from Falkenstein, Germany, on HETZNER-AS (AS24940). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 188.40.250.20:8118?
It answered in 7551ms 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 188.40.250.20:8118 been?
Across 46 days of tracking it answered 26% 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 188.40.250.20:8118?
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 Hetzner?
40 other free proxies are live on Hetzner (AS24940) in our pool right now, alongside 188.40.250.20:8118. 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 Germany?
Yes, 271 free proxies are exiting from Germany in our pool right now, answering in 2098ms 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.
188.40.250.20:8118 answers 26% 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.