Is 196.216.133.17:9999 a proxy? Yes.
196.216.133.17:9999 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 29% uptime, and was last checked 2 h ago.
uptime
South AfricaHow 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 3,605 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 14.6% of the checks we send it.
29%
of 3,519 checks answered
Pool median 14.6%. 196.216.133.17:9999 is in the better half.
3,519
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
71
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 196,722 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 196,722 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 3,605 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 1 other free proxy on HERO Telecoms, and 1,208 in South Africa. 196.216.133.17:9999 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD is the 184th 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 211 addresses on AS328471, which is 0.04% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 184th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 2 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 before7%
- Never answered92%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
- 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650930,901
- 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,187
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,142
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,730
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,437
175 networks between
184HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTDAS328471211
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 196.216.133.17:9999 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://196.216.133.17:9999 \
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 196.216.133.17:9999
196.216.133.17:9999 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 9999: 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 196.216.133.17:9999 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.
3,519 checks, 1,026 answered
That is 29% of the time, measured since June 13, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
196.216.133.17:9999 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 196.216.133.17:9999, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 13, 2026
- Last checked
- August 23, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 3,519
- Times it answered
- 1,026
- Spoke
- HTTP
29%
answered 1,026 of 3,519 checks
Questions about 196.216.133.17:9999
Is 196.216.133.17:9999 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 196.216.133.17:9999 answered HProxy's automated check 2 h 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 196.216.133.17?
It speaks HTTP. The port is 9999. Point your client at 196.216.133.17:9999 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 196.216.133.17 located?
Traffic through it exits from Vryburg, South Africa, on HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD (AS328471). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How reliable has 196.216.133.17:9999 been?
Across 62 days of tracking it answered 29% 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 196.216.133.17:9999?
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 HERO Telecoms?
1 other free proxy is live on HERO Telecoms (AS328471) in our pool right now, alongside 196.216.133.17:9999. 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 South Africa?
Yes, 1,208 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 570ms 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.
196.216.133.17:9999 answers 29% 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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102.66.176.109:9999
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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.