What are the issues you face with current proxy providers?

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.

Click to expand...

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.

Click to expand...

So dedicated hardware will solve the problem I guess?

samratfkt said:

So dedicated hardware will solve the problem I guess?

Click to expand...

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).

Click to expand...

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.

I agree with Brian, transparency. A lot of proxy providers put everything but the kitchen sink into their offerings but seldom put their own backend health metrics. An accurate pre-sale speedtest with jitter would be nice too.

Slow, not working, Leaks IP or some other geo issue.

There's some software worth mentioning. Proxifier for rotations. GSA proxy scraper (used to buy them from a service).

You are either using VPN, Socks5/Mobile Proxy or Tor for anonymity of IP, right? Or some combo of them. One other thing worth mentioning is SIM cards, though the cellular data is small so you have to use only for TXT. The GDP Pocket 4 netbook (newer) has SIM card module.

main issue is burned ip pools man. most residential providers reuse the same ips until they get flagged everywhere

I have issues sometimes using proxy for my social media accs, when using it I do get unusual account activities.