Is 196.251.222.242:8103 a proxy? Yes.
196.251.222.242:8103 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 16% uptime with a high 16912ms response time, and was last checked 1 hr ago.
uptime
South AfricaOther ports on this IP
196.251.222.242 is answering on 2 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 196.251.222.242 and have run 10,969 checks against them since May 31, 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 196.251.222.242:8104 at 22.9% across 5,526 checks
How this one compares
4,862 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 10,101 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 24.2% of the checks we send it.
16%
of 4,862 checks answered
Pool median 24.2%. 196.251.222.242:8103 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
16912ms
on its last response
Pool median 8,056ms.
103
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 285,675 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 25 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 285,675 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 10,101 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 1 other free proxy on Info Gro, and 353 in South Africa. 196.251.222.242:8103 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 16912ms it is slower than the 1374ms median for South Africa proxies.
How many free proxies are on Info-Gro (PTY) Ltd
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 135 addresses on AS37403, which is 0.02% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 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 before27%
- Never answered71%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045448,971
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650946,187
- 5M247AS900933,704
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,925
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,276
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,284
- AS37403 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 196.251.222.242:8103 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://196.251.222.242:8103 \
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 196.251.222.242:8103
196.251.222.242:8103 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 8103: 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 196.251.222.242:8103 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.
4,862 checks, 780 answered
That is 16% of the time, measured since June 12, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
196.251.222.242:8103 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 196.251.222.242:8103, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 12, 2026
- Last checked
- September 23, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 4,862
- Times it answered
- 780
- Spoke
- HTTP
16%
answered 780 of 4,862 checks
Questions about 196.251.222.242:8103
Is 196.251.222.242:8103 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 196.251.222.242:8103 answered HProxy's automated check 1 hr 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 196.251.222.242?
It speaks HTTP, and our checks grade it transparent. The port is 8103. Point your client at 196.251.222.242:8103 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 196.251.222.242 located?
Traffic through it exits from Brits, South Africa, on Info-Gro (PTY) Ltd (AS37403). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 196.251.222.242:8103?
It answered in 16912ms 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 196.251.222.242:8103 been?
Across 90 days of tracking it answered 16% 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 196.251.222.242:8103?
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 Info Gro?
1 other free proxy is live on Info Gro (AS37403) in our pool right now, alongside 196.251.222.242:8103. 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, 353 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 1374ms 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.
196.251.222.242:8103 answers 16% 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.
Other live free proxies
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13.246.6.135:46430
HTTPS · South Africa · 13% · 561ms
13.245.161.189:7080
HTTPS · South Africa · 51% · 591ms
16.28.32.67:8222
HTTPS · South Africa · 13% · 619ms
16.28.101.55:10800
HTTPS · South Africa · 10% · 687ms
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.