A 15-minute test with ten of your own URLs tells you more than any list of sites.
A datacenter IP belongs to a hosting network, not to a home internet provider. Many public pages and APIs answer any visitor the same way. Some services read what type of network an address belongs to and may treat hosting addresses differently, for example by asking for extra checks or by returning a shorter page. No list can tell you in advance what your exact target does, so the reliable answer is a small test with your own URLs.
| Item | Start with a datacenter IP | Use a residential or ISP IP |
|---|---|---|
| Typical work | Public pages, open APIs, uptime and speed checks, QA of your own site | Logged-in accounts, shops, ad accounts, subscriptions |
| Why | The result is the page itself, and you can measure it | The account expects a steady connection that looks like a home one; Proxy302's own guidance is to send this work to residential |
Based on the Proxy302 product facts file, checked 12 November 2026: datacenter IPs are recognisable as datacenter, so account, shop and ad-account work belongs on residential. This is a starting point, not a site-by-site list.
Write down ten pages or API endpoints you will actually request, including at least two deep pages (not only the home page) and the one that matters most to you.
Request each URL directly and note the status code, the time and the page size. This is what "full page" looks like.
Use the script below with your own proxy line. Run it twice, a few minutes apart, so one lucky or unlucky IP does not decide the result.
For each URL compare status, time and size with the baseline, and open two or three in a browser through the proxy to see whether the content is the full page.
If the pages that matter come back complete and fast enough, buy a small amount of traffic and repeat on real work. If they do not, test a residential or ISP IP the same way.
# urls.txt: one URL per line
PROXY='http://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT'
while read -r url; do
curl -s -o /dev/null --max-time 20 -x "$PROXY" \
-w "%{http_code} %{time_total}s %{size_download}B $url\n" "$url"
done < urls.txtExample only. Replace LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT with the line from My assets; for SOCKS5 write socks5h://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT. Drop the -x option to get the baseline without a proxy.
Check The same URL answers differently depending on the IP type or the exit country.
Fix Check the exit with ipinfo.io, then repeat the test with a residential or ISP IP in the same country.
Stop when If the residential result is also blocked, the cause is not the IP type; stop changing proxies and check your request headers and rate.
Check The response may be a short notice page instead of the content.
Fix Open that URL through the proxy in a browser and read what it shows.
Stop when Do not count a 200 as a pass until you have seen the page.
Check Distance between the exit country and the target, or the protocol and port in your proxy line.
Fix Compare with the baseline time and confirm the protocol: HTTP uses 2222, SOCKS5 uses 3333.
Stop when If every URL times out, fix the proxy line first; do not read it as a site restriction.
The rotating datacenter line has US exits only and is billed at US$0.40 per GB from the wallet, with no prepaid packs. It gives a new IP on each new connection by default, or the same IP for about 10 minutes if you ask for a sticky session, from a pool of thousands of US datacenter IPs. HTTP and SOCKS5 are both available. There is no free trial, so the 15-minute test above uses a small first purchase.
No single answer fits every site. Many public pages and APIs work; some services treat hosting addresses differently. Test your own URLs with the plan above.
Proxy302's guidance is no: datacenter IPs are recognisable as datacenter, so account, shop and ad-account work goes on static residential or ISP IPs.
The ten-URL test needs very little data. Rotating datacenter traffic is billed at US$0.40 per GB from the wallet, so a small top-up is enough.
No. The smallest purchases are 1 GB of rotating residential traffic or one IP for one day.
US datacenter IPs billed per GB from US$0.40/GB, with a new IP on each new connection from a large rotating pool. HTTP and SOCKS5, no packs to buy.
View options and pricingLook up an IP's ASN and the organization behind it, read the network-type label, and see why 'isp' does not always mean a home line.
Check the exit IP, country and ISP your proxy really gives you in 30 seconds — and why IP databases disagree on the city. With our own test of three lookup services.
What separates rotating residential, static ISP and datacenter proxies — who owns the IP, whether it changes, how you pay — and which one Proxy302's own presets pick for each job.
Official documentation · Confirmed on:
Read on 12 November 2026: -x/--proxy accepts socks4://, socks4a://, socks5:// and socks5h:// to pick the SOCKS version; --proxy-user sets the proxy username and password.
Product observation · Confirmed on:
Product facts file of the site, checked 12 November 2026 against the console and price table: prices in US$ (1 PTC = US$1), lease terms, protocols and ports, quantity limits, no free trial.
Create an account, top up once, then pick rotating residential, static ISP or datacenter IPs and have one running in your browser within minutes.
