Is 8.243.163.126:3128 a proxy? Yes.
8.243.163.126:3128 is a public HTTPS proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Colombia. It holds a spotty 36% uptime with a high 1831ms response time, and last answered our checker 55 min ago.
uptime
ColombiaOther ports on this IP
8.243.163.126 is answering on 1 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 8.243.163.126 and have run 2,880 checks against them since June 14, 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 8.243.163.126:3128 at 27.4% across 2,722 checks
How this one compares
1,627 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 6,139 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 38.1% of the checks we send it.
36%
of 1,627 checks answered
Pool median 38.1%. 8.243.163.126:3128 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
1831ms
on its last response
Pool median 5,481ms, so this one is roughly 3x quicker than typical.
140
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 429,085 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 429,085 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 6,139 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on Level 3, and 535 in Colombia. 8.243.163.126:3128 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1831ms it answers faster than the 4711ms median for Colombia proxies (about 39% of it).
Level 3 Communications, Inc. is the 239th 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 181 addresses on AS3356, which is 0.02% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. That makes it the 239th 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 now1%
- Answered before14%
- Never answered86%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
- 3M247AS900996,495
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
- 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650955,988
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,941
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,286
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,464
230 networks between
239Level 3 Communications, Inc.AS3356181
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 8.243.163.126:3128 over HTTPS. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x https://8.243.163.126:3128 \
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 8.243.163.126:3128
8.243.163.126:3128 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 8.243.163.126:3128 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 HTTPS.
1,627 checks, 583 answered
That is 36% of the time, measured since June 14, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
8.243.163.126:3128 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 8.243.163.126:3128, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- June 14, 2026
- Last checked
- November 1, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 1,627
- Times it answered
- 583
- Spoke
- HTTPS
36%
answered 583 of 1,627 checks
Questions about 8.243.163.126:3128
Is 8.243.163.126:3128 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 8.243.163.126:3128 answered HProxy's automated check 55 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 8.243.163.126?
It speaks HTTPS, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 3128. Point your client at 8.243.163.126:3128 over https to route a request through it.
Where is 8.243.163.126 located?
Traffic through it exits from Bogota, Colombia, on Level 3 Communications, Inc. (AS3356). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 8.243.163.126:3128?
It answered in 1831ms 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 8.243.163.126:3128 been?
Across 71 days of tracking it answered 36% 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 8.243.163.126:3128?
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 Level 3?
None other than 8.243.163.126:3128 at the moment. AS3356 (Level 3) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in Colombia?
Yes, 535 free proxies are exiting from Colombia in our pool right now, answering in 4711ms 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.
8.243.163.126:3128 answers 36% 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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