Is 81.158.71.182:8888 a proxy? Yes.
81.158.71.182:8888 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United Kingdom. It holds an excellent 100% uptime with a high 1740ms response time, and was last checked 1 min ago.
uptime
United KingdomHow this one compares
Reliable enough to sit in the top 5% 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 7,477 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 24.7% of the checks we send it.
100%
of 24 checks answered
Pool median 24.7%. 81.158.71.182:8888 is in the top 5%.
1740ms
on its last response
Pool median 6,669ms, so this one is roughly 4x quicker than typical.
0
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 240,056 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 240,056 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 7,477 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on BTnet UK Regional network, and 887 in United Kingdom. 81.158.71.182:8888 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1740ms it is slower than the 65ms median for United Kingdom proxies.
How many free proxies are on BTnet UK Regional network
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 67 addresses on AS2856, which is 0.01% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 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 before1%
- Never answered97%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045446,883
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650942,311
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,918
- 6M247AS900918,317
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,272
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,230
- AS2856 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 81.158.71.182:8888 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://81.158.71.182:8888 \
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 81.158.71.182:8888
81.158.71.182:8888 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.
It has answered every single check
Each check opens a real connection to 81.158.71.182:8888 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. 81.158.71.182:8888 has completed that handshake on all 24 attempts so far, which is rare on a free public proxy and worth treating with some suspicion until the record is longer. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, which is how we know it spoke HTTP and HTTPS.
24 checks, 24 answered
That is 100% of the time, measured since September 7, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
81.158.71.182:8888 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 81.158.71.182:8888, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 7, 2026
- Last checked
- September 7, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 24
- Times it answered
- 24
- Spoke
- HTTP, HTTPS
100%
answered 24 of 24 checks
Questions about 81.158.71.182:8888
Is 81.158.71.182:8888 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 81.158.71.182:8888 answered HProxy's automated check 1 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 81.158.71.182?
It speaks HTTP, HTTPS, and our checks grade it transparent. The port is 8888. Point your client at 81.158.71.182:8888 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 81.158.71.182 located?
Traffic through it exits from Darlington, United Kingdom, on BTnet UK Regional network (AS2856). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 81.158.71.182:8888?
It answered in 1740ms 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 81.158.71.182:8888 been?
Across 1 day of tracking it answered 100% 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 81.158.71.182:8888?
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 BTnet UK Regional network?
None other than 81.158.71.182:8888 at the moment. AS2856 (BTnet UK Regional network) 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 Kingdom?
Yes, 887 free proxies are exiting from United Kingdom in our pool right now, answering in 65ms 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
This one is good, and it will still disappear.
81.158.71.182:8888 has answered 100% of our checks, which puts it well above most of what we track. It is still a public endpoint with nobody standing behind it: nobody agreed to serve you, no capacity is set aside for you, and there is no warning on the day it stops. Fine for a test, a bad foundation for anything that has to work tomorrow.
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