Is 196.250.225.146:60606 a proxy? Yes.
196.250.225.146:60606 is a public SOCKS4 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 7% uptime with a high 4747ms response time, and last answered our checker 32 min ago.
uptime
South AfricaHow this one compares
2,098 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 6,612 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 32.5% of the checks we send it.
7%
of 2,098 checks answered
Pool median 32.5%. 196.250.225.146:60606 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
4747ms
on its last response
Pool median 5,952ms.
122
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 396,420 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 22 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 396,420 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 6,612 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on Forbtech, and 231 in South Africa. 196.250.225.146:60606 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 4747ms it is slower than the 1632ms median for South Africa proxies.
How many free proxies are on Forbtech
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 address on AS328125, which is 0.00% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. None of them are answering at the moment, though every one stays in the re-check rotation in case that changes.
- Answered before100%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900982,335
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650949,995
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,933
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,281
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,391
- AS328125 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 196.250.225.146:60606 over SOCKS4. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x socks4://196.250.225.146:60606 \
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 196.250.225.146:60606
196.250.225.146:60606 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 60606: Ephemeral port range
This is a throwaway port number, the kind a computer hands out for a few minutes and then takes back. Anything published on one tends to move or disappear when its host restarts, which is a large part of why public proxy lists rot so fast.
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 196.250.225.146:60606 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 SOCKS4.
2,098 checks, 147 answered
That is 7% of the time, measured since June 14, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
196.250.225.146:60606 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 196.250.225.146:60606, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 14, 2026
- Last checked
- October 14, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 2,098
- Times it answered
- 147
- Spoke
- SOCKS4
7%
answered 147 of 2,098 checks
Questions about 196.250.225.146:60606
Is 196.250.225.146:60606 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 196.250.225.146:60606 answered HProxy's automated check 32 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 196.250.225.146?
It speaks SOCKS4, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 60606. Point your client at 196.250.225.146:60606 over socks4 to route a request through it.
Where is 196.250.225.146 located?
Traffic through it exits from Johannesburg, South Africa, on Forbtech (AS328125). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 196.250.225.146:60606?
It answered in 4747ms 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 196.250.225.146:60606 been?
Across 77 days of tracking it answered 7% 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 196.250.225.146:60606?
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 Forbtech?
None other than 196.250.225.146:60606 at the moment. AS328125 (Forbtech) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in South Africa?
Yes, 231 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 1632ms 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.
196.250.225.146:60606 answers 7% 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.