What are the issues you face with current proxy providers?

iFreelancer said:

- Damn Slow
- The location is not the same as their dashboard says
- Even after setting a sticky IP, it gets rotate constantly

I wish they could fix this asap. This is not an issue with one proxy provider to mention; it's almost every known proxy provider.

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Looks like that you need to switch to a 5G dedicated mobile proxy, basically solves all your problems.

In my experience the main challenges with proxy providers are unstable IP quality frequent bans poor geo accuracy and inconsistent speed Another issue is lack of transparency in IP sourcing and limited control over rotation and session management

I think providers should focus more on stable residential pools better targeting options and clearer performance reporting

A lot of providers tend to recycle their IPs and if you log into them with one of your accs it immediately gets you flagged. That’s one of my main issues. I tend to avoid IPs that are sold too cheap these days.

At the end of the day, nothing replaces testing against your real target.

B.Shahin said:

right, and that's exactly why they mostly don't hard-block residential/mobile ranges — CGNAT means hundreds of real users can sit behind one /24, so a flat block takes out paying customers too. so instead of blocking they score it: the subnet's history just nudges your risk up and you eat more challenges rather than a clean 403. datacenter ranges are the opposite — no real humans behind them, so a site will happily null-route a whole ASN. that's the real reason residential survives and DC dies fast: not that the IPs are "cleaner," it's that the collateral damage of blocking shared ranges is too high for the site to eat. practical version: on residential your enemy isn't the block, it's the score creeping up until you're solving everything; on DC it's the outright ban. so on residential i watch challenge-rate as the early warning, not just hard failures.

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Yeah agreed.

Rankboostbacklink said:

Current proxy providers often suffer from slow speeds, frequent IP bans, and unreliable connections.
High pricing, limited location options, and poor customer support are also common issues.

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So dedicated hardware will solve the problem I guess?

samratfkt said:

So dedicated hardware will solve the problem I guess?

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dedicated helps, but it fixes a different problem than the one that actually blocks you. what you get from owning the hardware is control and no reselling — nobody else is burning the IP behind your back, and the "pool" can't secretly be 3 ASNs sliced thin. that part's real. what it does NOT change is the reputation math: a site still judges the IP by its ASN and subnet, not by who's paying for it. a dedicated IP sitting in a datacenter ASN is still a datacenter IP — it'll get scored and null-routed like one no matter how exclusively it's yours. the version that actually moves the needle is dedicated residential/mobile (your own SIMs/dongles on a real ISP), because now the ASN itself reads as a human ISP — but that's expensive, hard to scale and location-limited, and you can still torch it with aggressive behavior. so i'd frame it as: dedicated buys you predictability and stops other people ruining your IPs; it doesn't buy you a clean reputation. that still comes down to ASN type + how hard you push.

Some vendors selling residential proxies that are really mislabelled datacenter IPs.

Also, a lot of mobile proxies that are burned on popular sites (Insta/google/x/reddit).

CyHead said:

Some vendors selling residential proxies that are really mislabelled datacenter IPs.

Also, a lot of mobile proxies that are burned on popular sites (Insta/google/x/reddit).

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Yes so we need a provider who give dedicated mobile dongles or residential IPs, I mean dedicated modems?

I'd like to see more transparency. Things like real-time IP health metrics, clearer information about the active pool size, and better trial options would make it much easier to compare providers.