Residential Proxy Connectivity Report (October 2026): 38 Platforms, 8 Countries

Key findings

Reach. 1,584 of 1,596 platform checks from the seven non-Russian countries succeeded in their own round. The other 12 had no success that round (Shopee and LinkedIn Ads from the United Kingdom at 23:01 UTC; LinkedIn, Telegram, YouTube, Shopee, and LinkedIn Ads from Singapore at 23:01 UTC; Telegram from Japan at 00:01 UTC; Telegram from Brazil at 00:01 UTC; Telegram from Japan at 04:07 UTC; LinkedIn and LinkedIn Ads from the United Kingdom at 05:08 UTC); the public data does not record why.

Speed. The median time to first response across the seven countries was 1.4 s. Country medians ran from 0.7 s (Singapore) to 2.6 s (Brazil); platform medians from 0.3 s (Google Ads) to 3.3 s (Shopee). The probe server is in Asia, which favours Asian exits.

Exit diversity. No /24 block appeared twice: each round drew a new sticky exit in each country, 42 different /24 blocks in 42 country-rounds, spread over 31 networks (ASNs) — for example T-Mobile and Charter in the United States, BT and Virgin Media in the United Kingdom, KDDI and SoftBank in Japan.

Russia. The Russian exit produced successes in 3 of the 6 rounds; in those rounds 13 to 19 of the 37 platforms counted for Russia answered (Gemini is not counted there, because Google does not offer it in Russia). In the other 3 rounds the probe's run log shows that the Russian exit failed the identity check, so no platform was checked through it. 18 platforms never answered from the Russian exit: Discord, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Telegram, Threads, X, YouTube, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, ElevenLabs, GitHub Copilot, Etsy, Shopee, LinkedIn Ads, Meta Ads, and Reddit Ads. Our check cannot tell a national block from a service that refuses Russian addresses.

IP databases. We looked up three anycast addresses on ipinfo.io, ipwho.is and ip-api.com: the three services agreed on the country and the network (ASN) for all three addresses, on the region for one and on the exact city for none.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)
• Proxy302 connectivity probe source and target list
• Our lookup of three public IPs on three services
• Gemini Apps Help: Where you can use the Gemini web app
• Proxy302 probe run log (one summary line per run)

What this means when you choose an exit

Choose the country your account or store lives in, not the fastest one. Each of the seven countries had all 38 platforms answer in at least 4 of the 6 rounds, and the country medians differ by about 1.8 seconds.

Do not count on keeping one rotating residential IP from hour to hour: with the same credentials, our probe got a different /24 block in every round. If an account must keep one IP for weeks, a static ISP IP does not rotate during its lease.

Give scripts room. The median first response was 1.4 s, but 38 of the 1,584 successful checks took longer than 5 s and the slowest took 9.1 s, so a 5-second timeout would have thrown those real answers away.

Russian exits came and went in these rounds (results in 3 of 6; in 5 of all 8 runs in the window, by the probe's run log). Test your own target with 1 GB, the smallest purchase, before you buy more.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)
• Proxy302 connectivity probe source and target list
• Proxy302 probe run log (one summary line per run)

The 6 rounds in this report

Platforms that succeeded with the round's own timestamp, out of 38 (37 from Russia, where Gemini is not counted). "Identity check failed": even after one retry the probe could not confirm the Russian exit's IP and country, so it checked nothing through it that round (run log). The probe ran 8 times in this window; the runs at 01:03 and 02:04 UTC were not saved and are not counted here. Their run-log lines show 37 or 38 of 38 for each of the seven countries and 18 and 19 for Russia.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)
• Proxy302 probe run log (one summary line per run)

Time to first response by exit country

All successful checks of all rounds in this report. Time runs from the moment the probe opens its CONNECT request to our gateway until the platform's first response headers arrive. Russia counts only the rounds in which it produced results.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)
• Proxy302 connectivity probe source and target list

Median time by platform group

Median of every successful check of the platforms in each group, all rounds. Russia is left out: it answered for too few platforms to compare groups.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)

All 38 platforms

Fastest and slowest country compare each country's median for that platform. "From the Russian exit" counts the 3 rounds in which Russia produced any result.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)
• Proxy302 connectivity probe source and target list
• Gemini Apps Help: Where you can use the Gemini web app

Exit networks by country

Network names and cities as the probe's IP lookup reports them for each round's exit (ipinfo.io, or ipwho.is when ipinfo.io does not answer); the probe publishes only the first three octets of an IP.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)

Side test: three IP databases, three addresses

Free endpoints, looked up at 00:03 UTC on 18 October 2026 from a network in Singapore. These are anycast addresses served from many places at once, the hardest case for any location database.

• Sources:
• Our lookup of three public IPs on three services
• RFC 4786: Operation of Anycast Services (December 2006)

Methodology

The probe runs once an hour on our server in Asia (a systemd timer with up to two minutes of random delay). For each of the eight countries it uses rotating residential credentials from our own QA account and the public customer entry proxy.proxy302.com, port 2222, with one sticky session per country.

Before and after the platform checks it asks ipinfo.io through the proxy for the exit IP and country (falling back to ipwho.is). A country's round counts only if the exit is in the right country and the IP did not change; if the exit did not answer the lookup or rotated mid-run, the country is tried once more.

Each platform has one target and one rule for a normal answer, kept in the site's target list: for most sites a 200 on robots.txt, for Telegram a 200 from its web app, for ChatGPT and Claude a 401 from their APIs (a key is missing, the location is accepted; a ChatGPT answer naming an unsupported country does not count), for Discord a gateway address starting with wss://, for GitHub Copilot a 400 or 401 that asks for authorization, and for TikTok Shop and Reddit Ads a 200 or a redirect.

Timing starts when the probe opens the CONNECT tunnel to our gateway and stops at the platform's first response headers, so it includes the tunnel, the TLS handshake and the platform's own response. Most requests ask for the first kilobyte only. Four platforms are checked at a time per country and two countries at a time; TLS sessions are reused per platform host across countries.

Only successful checks are published, as one public file per platform with the latest success per country, its time, latency and exit (first three octets of the IP, city, region, ASN and operator). Successes are kept for six hours. For this report we read all 38 files at each round and kept only results stamped with that round's own time. After every run the probe also writes one summary line to its log: successes per country, or why a country was skipped.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 connectivity probe source and target list
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)
• Proxy302 probe run log (one summary line per run)

Limits — read before you cite

This is not a success rate. Failures are not published, and a refused request, a timeout and a skipped exit all look the same: no result. The counts above are successes, not a measured failure rate of the network.

It is a small sample: 6 of the 8 hourly rounds over about 7 hours, one exit per country per round, from one probe in Asia. Measured from Europe or the Americas, the times could differ.

Reachable is not the same as usable. A 200 on robots.txt or a 401 from an API shows that the platform answered this IP; it does not show that a login, a purchase or an account will work.

The probe has exits only in the eight countries listed, none in mainland China or anywhere else, so this report says nothing about access from other places. The Russian exit failed the identity check in 3 of the 6 rounds, so a missing Russian result proves nothing on its own.

The IP-database test covers three anycast addresses at one moment; it shows that databases can disagree, not how often.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 connectivity probe source and target list
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)
• Our lookup of three public IPs on three services
• RFC 4786: Operation of Anycast Services (December 2006)
• Proxy302 probe run log (one summary line per run)

Data and how to cite

The live files are public and change every hour: https://proxy302.com/live/connectivity/<platform>.json, for the 38 platform names in the table above (discord, youtube, chatgpt, amazon and so on). This report is a fixed snapshot of the rounds listed.

Suggested citation: Proxy302, "Residential Proxy Connectivity Report (October 2026): 38 Platforms, 8 Countries", 18 October 2026, https://proxy302.com/guides/proxy-connectivity-report/ . Please quote figures together with the round times and the limits above.

• Live file: Discord
• Live file: ChatGPT
• Live file: Amazon
• Which countries block which platforms

• Sources:
• Proxy302 live connectivity files (public results)

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