Is 217.60.178.27:1080 a proxy? Yes.
217.60.178.27:1080 is a public SOCKS4 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United Arab Emirates. It holds a spotty 43% uptime with a quick 157ms response time, and was last checked 8 hr ago.
Other ports on this IP
217.60.178.27 is answering on 2 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 217.60.178.27 and have run 29 checks against them since September 18, 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 217.60.178.27:1080 at 42.9% across 28 checks
How 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 5,847 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 28.9% of the checks we send it.
43%
of 28 checks answered
Pool median 28.9%. 217.60.178.27:1080 is in the better half.
157ms
on its last response
Pool median 7,630ms, so this one is roughly 49x quicker than typical.
0
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 279,994 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 26 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 279,994 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 5,847 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 30 in United Arab Emirates. 217.60.178.27:1080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 157ms it answers faster than the 660ms median for United Arab Emirates proxies (about 24% of it).
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 217.60.178.27:1080 over SOCKS4. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x socks4://217.60.178.27:1080 \
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 217.60.178.27:1080
217.60.178.27:1080 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 1080: SOCKS
Port 1080 is the officially registered home of SOCKS, which forwards any kind of connection instead of only web traffic. An address offered on 1080 is being presented as a general purpose tunnel, not just a web proxy.
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 217.60.178.27:1080 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 and SOCKS5.
28 checks, 12 answered
That is 43% of the time, measured since September 18, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
217.60.178.27:1080 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 217.60.178.27:1080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 18, 2026
- Last checked
- September 18, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 28
- Times it answered
- 12
- Spoke
- SOCKS4, SOCKS5
43%
answered 12 of 28 checks
Questions about 217.60.178.27:1080
Is 217.60.178.27:1080 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 217.60.178.27:1080 answered HProxy's automated check 8 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 217.60.178.27?
It speaks SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 1080. Point your client at 217.60.178.27:1080 over socks4 to route a request through it.
Where is 217.60.178.27 located?
Traffic through it exits from United Arab Emirates, on ExpressHost LTD. That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 217.60.178.27:1080?
It answered in 157ms 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 217.60.178.27:1080 been?
Across 1 day of tracking it answered 43% 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 217.60.178.27:1080?
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.
Are there other free proxies in United Arab Emirates?
Yes, 30 free proxies are exiting from United Arab Emirates in our pool right now, answering in 660ms 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.
217.60.178.27:1080 answers 43% 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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104.128.138.101:1088
SOCKS5 · United Arab Emirates · 16% · 82ms
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HTTP · United Arab Emirates · 24% · 364ms
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HTTP · United Arab Emirates · 12% · 620ms
47.91.104.88:3128
HTTP · United Arab Emirates · 93% · 660ms
151.242.116.35:8080
HTTP · United Arab Emirates · 23% · 3922ms
91.73.223.206:3128
HTTP · United Arab Emirates · 92% · 45880ms
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.