Can someone help me out here regarding this IP address?

ann9787

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I just paid for this service that claims they offer 100% residential proxies that you remote access. Sounds great. When I check the IP with various sites like ipburger or ip2location, it's showing me the IP is a corporate IP and the proxy type shows up as a data center. If it were truly residential, the proxy type field would be blank. At least I think . . .

The service keeps telling me not to worry, that it is actually residential, however, that's not what I'm seeing when I check. Am I missing something here? I'm obviously not an expert here but there seems to be a big discrepancy.
 
Sounds like a backconnect proxy and you're checking the IP of the proxy you were given and not the proxy it passes through.

Configure your browser to use that proxy and visit whatismyip.com and see if it's still showing the configured IP. It shouldn't.
 
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