Is 217.29.208.206:9999 a proxy? Yes.
217.29.208.206:9999 is a public HTTPS proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a spotty 35% uptime with a high 3143ms response time, and was last checked 1 hr 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 5,391 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 28.5% of the checks we send it.
35%
of 5,561 checks answered
Pool median 28.5%. 217.29.208.206:9999 is in the better half.
3143ms
on its last response
Pool median 6,683ms, so this one is roughly 2x quicker than typical.
102
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 286,005 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 286,005 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 5,391 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 3 other free proxies on HERO Telecoms, and 356 in South Africa. 217.29.208.206:9999 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 3143ms it is slower than the 1287ms median for South Africa proxies.
HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD is the 194th 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 221 addresses on AS328471, which is 0.03% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 194th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 4 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 now2%
- Answered before7%
- Never answered91%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045448,974
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650946,259
- 5M247AS900933,739
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,925
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,276
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,286
185 networks between
194HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTDAS328471221
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 217.29.208.206:9999 over HTTPS. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x https://217.29.208.206:9999 \
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 217.29.208.206:9999
217.29.208.206:9999 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 217.29.208.206:9999 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 HTTPS.
5,561 checks, 1,937 answered
That is 35% 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
217.29.208.206:9999 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 217.29.208.206:9999, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 13, 2026
- Last checked
- September 23, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 5,561
- Times it answered
- 1,937
- Spoke
- HTTPS
35%
answered 1,937 of 5,561 checks
Questions about 217.29.208.206:9999
Is 217.29.208.206:9999 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 217.29.208.206:9999 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 217.29.208.206?
It speaks HTTPS, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 9999. Point your client at 217.29.208.206:9999 over https to route a request through it.
Where is 217.29.208.206 located?
Traffic through it exits from Potchefstroom, South Africa, on HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD (AS328471). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 217.29.208.206:9999?
It answered in 3143ms 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 217.29.208.206:9999 been?
Across 90 days of tracking it answered 35% 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 217.29.208.206:9999?
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?
3 other free proxies are live on HERO Telecoms (AS328471) in our pool right now, alongside 217.29.208.206:9999. 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, 356 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 1287ms 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.
217.29.208.206:9999 answers 35% 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.