Is 74.242.169.16:3128 a proxy? Yes.
74.242.169.16:3128 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Switzerland. It holds a moderate 58% uptime with a high 55824ms response time, and last answered our checker 10 min ago.
uptime
SwitzerlandOther ports on this IP
74.242.169.16 is answering on 1 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 74.242.169.16 and have run 8,982 checks against them since May 13, 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 74.242.169.16:3128 at 52.0% across 8,820 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 7,770 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 41% of the checks we send it.
58%
of 5,249 checks answered
Pool median 41%. 74.242.169.16:3128 is in the better half.
55824ms
on its last response
Pool median 4,627ms.
175
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 431,752 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 20 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 431,752 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 7,770 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 13 other free proxies on Microsoft, and 996 in Switzerland. 74.242.169.16:3128 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 55824ms it is slower than the 4496ms median for Switzerland proxies.
Microsoft Corporation is the 57th 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 1,212 addresses on AS8075, which is 0.13% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 57th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 14 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 before20%
- Never answered79%
- 1Limited Network LTDAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247 Europe SRLAS900997,993
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650956,797
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,944
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,286
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,469
48 networks between
57Microsoft CorporationAS80751,212
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 74.242.169.16:3128 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://74.242.169.16:3128 \
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 74.242.169.16:3128
74.242.169.16:3128 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 3128: Squid default
Port 3128 is the default for Squid, the most widely installed proxy software in the world. Most addresses published on 3128 are Squid servers that were meant to serve one office or one network and ended up reachable by everybody.
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 74.242.169.16:3128 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.
5,249 checks, 3,027 answered
That is 58% of the time, measured since May 13, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
74.242.169.16:3128 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 74.242.169.16:3128, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- May 13, 2026
- Last checked
- November 4, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 5,249
- Times it answered
- 3,027
- Spoke
- HTTP
58%
answered 3,027 of 5,249 checks
Questions about 74.242.169.16:3128
Is 74.242.169.16:3128 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 74.242.169.16:3128 answered HProxy's automated check 10 min 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 74.242.169.16?
It speaks HTTP, and our checks grade it transparent. The port is 3128. Point your client at 74.242.169.16:3128 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 74.242.169.16 located?
Traffic through it exits from Zurich, Switzerland, on Microsoft Corporation (AS8075). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 74.242.169.16:3128?
It answered in 55824ms 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 74.242.169.16:3128 been?
Across 90 days of tracking it answered 58% 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 74.242.169.16:3128?
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 Microsoft?
13 other free proxies are live on Microsoft (AS8075) in our pool right now, alongside 74.242.169.16:3128. 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 Switzerland?
Yes, 996 free proxies are exiting from Switzerland in our pool right now, answering in 4496ms 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.
74.242.169.16:3128 answers 58% 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.