Is 194.163.174.78:1086 a proxy? Yes.
194.163.174.78:1086 is a public SOCKS5 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from France. It holds a spotty 31% uptime with a high 602ms response time, and was last checked 27 min ago.
FranceOther ports on this IP
194.163.174.78 is answering on 13 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 13 of them on 194.163.174.78 and have run 19,420 checks against them since June 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 194.163.174.78:8282 at 33.5% across 1,184 checks
| Port | Uptime | Answered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8282 | 33.5% | 397 / 1,184 | In the live pool |
| 1089 | 33.4% | 637 / 1,907 | In the live pool |
| 1088 | 30.5% | 679 / 2,223 | In the live pool |
| 1086 | 30.4% | 307 / 1,010 | In the live pool |
| 1083 | 30.2% | 355 / 1,175 | In the live pool |
| 1085 | 30.1% | 452 / 1,502 | In the live pool |
| 8286 | 30.1% | 108 / 359 | In the live pool |
| 1087 | 28.7% | 486 / 1,692 | In the live pool |
| 1081 | 27.4% | 624 / 2,275 | In the live pool |
| 1084 | 27.4% | 337 / 1,229 | In the live pool |
| 1090 | 27.2% | 353 / 1,296 | In the live pool |
| 1080 | 24.8% | 347 / 1,399 | In the live pool |
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 15,267 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 23% of the checks we send it.
31%
of 1,001 checks answered
Pool median 23%. 194.163.174.78:1086 is in the better half.
602ms
on its last response
Pool median 1,622ms, so this one is roughly 3x quicker than typical.
25
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.
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.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 15,267 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 24 other free proxies on Contabo, and 1,765 in France. 194.163.174.78:1086 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 602ms it answers faster than the 915ms median for France proxies (about 66% of it).
CONTABO is the 35th 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 1,730 addresses on AS51167, which is 0.23% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 35th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 25 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 before15%
- Never answered84%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,169
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045440,905
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650939,413
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,902
- 6M247AS900917,998
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,269
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,186
26 networks between
35CONTABOAS511671,729
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 194.163.174.78:1086 over SOCKS5. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x socks5://194.163.174.78:1086 \
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 194.163.174.78:1086
194.163.174.78:1086 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 1086: 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 194.163.174.78:1086 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.
1,001 checks, 306 answered
That is 31% of the time, measured since August 9, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
194.163.174.78:1086 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 194.163.174.78:1086, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 9, 2026
- Last checked
- September 3, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 1,001
- Times it answered
- 306
- Spoke
- SOCKS5
31%
answered 306 of 1,001 checks
Questions about 194.163.174.78:1086
Is 194.163.174.78:1086 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 194.163.174.78:1086 answered HProxy's automated check 27 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 194.163.174.78?
It speaks SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 1086. Point your client at 194.163.174.78:1086 over socks5 to route a request through it.
Where is 194.163.174.78 located?
Traffic through it exits from Lauterbourg, France, on CONTABO (AS51167). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 194.163.174.78:1086?
It answered in 602ms 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 194.163.174.78:1086 been?
Across 19 days of tracking it answered 31% 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 194.163.174.78:1086?
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 Contabo?
24 other free proxies are live on Contabo (AS51167) in our pool right now, alongside 194.163.174.78:1086. 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 France?
Yes, 1,765 free proxies are exiting from France in our pool right now, answering in 915ms 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.
194.163.174.78:1086 answers 31% 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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