Is 38.246.232.45:8888 a proxy? Yes.
38.246.232.45:8888 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United States. It holds a spotty 4% uptime with a high 84304ms response time, and last answered our checker 2 days ago.
uptime
United StatesOther ports on this IP
38.246.232.45 is answering on 1 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 3 of them on 38.246.232.45 and have run 284 checks against them since October 7, 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 38.246.232.45:8888 at 3.8% across 105 checks
How this one compares
105 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 8,556 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 32.1% of the checks we send it.
4%
of 105 checks answered
Pool median 32.1%. 38.246.232.45:8888 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
84304ms
on its last response
Pool median 5,831ms.
2
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 388,312 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 388,312 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 8,556 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on NetLab Global, and 15,561 in United States. 38.246.232.45:8888 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 84304ms it is slower than the 2104ms median for United States proxies.
NetLab Global is the 211th 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 208 addresses on AS979, which is 0.02% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 211th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 1 of them is answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.
- Answering now<1%
- Answered before47%
- Never answered53%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900969,411
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650949,780
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,931
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,280
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,373
202 networks between
211NetLab GlobalAS979208
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 38.246.232.45:8888 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://38.246.232.45:8888 \
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 38.246.232.45:8888
38.246.232.45:8888 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 8888: HTTP, alternate
Port 8888 is another common stand-in for port 80, and the default for several debugging and proxy-inspection tools. Seeing it usually says more about the software than about the host.
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 38.246.232.45:8888 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.
105 checks, 4 answered
That is 4% of the time, measured since October 9, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
38.246.232.45:8888 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 38.246.232.45:8888, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- October 9, 2026
- Last checked
- October 11, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 105
- Times it answered
- 4
- Spoke
- HTTP
4%
answered 4 of 105 checks
Questions about 38.246.232.45:8888
Is 38.246.232.45:8888 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 38.246.232.45:8888 answered HProxy's automated check 2 days 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 38.246.232.45?
It speaks HTTP, and our checks grade it anonymous. The port is 8888. Point your client at 38.246.232.45:8888 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 38.246.232.45 located?
Traffic through it exits from Los Angeles, United States, on NetLab Global (AS979). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 38.246.232.45:8888?
It answered in 84304ms 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 38.246.232.45:8888 been?
Across 3 days of tracking it answered 4% 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 38.246.232.45:8888?
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 NetLab Global?
None other than 38.246.232.45:8888 at the moment. AS979 (NetLab Global) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in United States?
Yes, 15,561 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 2104ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
Where to go next
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Free proxies fail. This is what that looks like.
38.246.232.45:8888 answers 4% 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.