Is 197.157.140.150:8080 a proxy? Yes, it was.
197.157.140.150:8080 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Rwanda on Airtel Rwanda Ltd. Across 1,515 checks it answered 21% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered July 11, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 1,515 checks
RwandaUptime & downtime
25
Days tracked
594
Checks run
24.7%
Downtime
19
Down days
How this one compares
It was one of the good ones, for 30 days.
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 4,737 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 14.9% of the checks we send it.
21%
of 1,515 checks answered
Pool median 14.9%. 197.157.140.150:8080 is in the better half.
1,515
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
30
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 195,312 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.
June 11, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 11 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
July 11, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 30 days before it went quiet.
July 14, 2026
Moved to the permanent record
It left the live pool here. Nothing is deleted: the address keeps this page and stays in the re-check rotation.
August 17, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 1,515 real connections to this endpoint in total. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 24 hours.
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 195,312 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 4,737 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 197.157.140.150:8080
197.157.140.150:8080 has been through 1,515 checks on HProxy's list, answering 317 of them. Few addresses in the database carry a record this long.
11 public sources published it
197.157.140.150 appears in 11 of the public proxy sources HProxy tracks. Lists copy from each other constantly, so an address showing up in many of them says a lot about how widely it was republished and very little about whether it ever worked.
Port 8080: HTTP, alternate
Port 8080 is the most common proxy port on the internet. It stands in for port 80, and unlike port 80 any program can open it without administrator rights. That single detail is why so much ends up here, the deliberate and the accidental alike.
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 197.157.140.150:8080 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, so a proxy is never missed because we guessed the wrong protocol.
1,515 checks, 317 answered
That is 21% of the time, measured since June 11, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
We are still watching for it to come back
Being archived does not stop the testing. 197.157.140.150:8080 answered before, so it is exactly the kind of address that can return, and the sweep works through the whole database and reaches every address roughly once every 24 hours. Its last check was on August 17, 2026, so the next one is due within a day of that. The moment it answers again it is promoted straight back into the live free proxy list, automatically, with no manual step.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 197.157.140.150:8080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 11, 2026
- Last checked
- August 17, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 1,515
- Times it answered
- 317
- Stopped answering
- July 11, 2026
21%
answered 317 of 1,515 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on Airtel Rwanda Ltd, and none in Rwanda. 197.157.140.150:8080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
How many free proxies are on Airtel Rwanda 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 3 addresses on AS327707, 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 before67%
- Never answered33%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
- 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650928,781
- 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,186
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,141
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,709
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,413
- AS327707 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
Questions about 197.157.140.150:8080
Is 197.157.140.150:8080 a working proxy?
No, not any more. It was a working public proxy in HProxy's free pool and has since gone dark, last answering on July 11, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 197.157.140.150 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 1,515 checks against it and it answered 317 of them, about 21% of the time, over 30 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 197.157.140.150?
Its reverse DNS record is 150-140-157-197.r.airtel.co.rw. That is what the address itself publishes about who operates it, which is often more telling than the network name: hosting providers name their machines by region and instance type, and a residential line usually carries its ISP's own pattern.
Where was 197.157.140.150 hosted?
Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda, Airtel Rwanda Ltd (AS327707). It is a residential or ISP address rather than a datacenter one.
Why keep a page for an address that no longer works?
Because "was this address ever a proxy, and when" is a real question. If you are looking at this IP in a firewall log or an abuse report, the dates and the check counts here are the answer. HProxy's public proxy IP list keeps every address it has ever tracked and carries on re-testing them, so deleting this record would throw all of that away.
How many free proxies are on Airtel Rwanda Ltd?
None other than 197.157.140.150:8080 at the moment. AS327707 (Airtel Rwanda Ltd) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in Rwanda?
Not at the moment. Rwanda has no other free proxies live in our pool right now. The pool re-verifies constantly, so that number moves.
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