Soax.com - Fraud

imccafey said:

Good info there, wondering if Soax has some kind of presence here somewhere. I suppose I can check that out later. Yeah ideally, mobile proxies are the go-to for a clearer hold of residential IPs. That's primarily why mobile proxies are pricier than most. They did say it's a mix but how much of the IPs your getting are actually from datacenters and such is a bit vague on that wording.

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Anne-Maree said:

so you get all ip address datacenter ip but not residential ip? or only get bad score?

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lucky.sparks said:

static residentials or ISP proxies are just simply datacenter proxies that are annonced under residential providers.

e.g. one of IPs, 12.53.199.234 comes from AT&T services.

So it's kind residential but its not. Thats what they offered you - both features from residential and datacenter.

Those fraud score sites are not a measurement to understand if IPs are good for you or not, they must be tested in production anyways because each site has their own fraud detection methods and what works for one doesnt work for others.

Because those IPs are static, they are very easly to be detected and marked as proxies because those sites simply mark the subnet ranges of them.

There are some providers offering clean subnets but they wont have enough to offer you rotation you need, simply because they would run out of IPs they own.

Real residentials that sticks for 3 days or more are very rare to find because of the nature how IPs are sourced, so rare that I wouldnt even recommend trying to find them.

So if you need them to stick, you need to go for mobile proxies, your own dongles then can have same IP for couple of days for sure.

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Emit said:

Well, I understand what you are saying but still, that does not rid Soax of liability to be honest and real with the customer.

I asked multiple times if the IPs will show up as datacenter in ANY of the parameters and they said - "no, it's only hosted on datacenters but everything else will be 100% the same as Residentials"

Also, once I sent them the pic as it showing up as DC they immediately changed the pool to real residential proxies and then reverted back to ISP once I bought my plan, that's 100% deceiving the client.

and last, bandwidth usage is 3~4x the bandwidth usage I get with other providers, I know how much bandwidth I use and they are pumping up the numbers somehow.

all in all, shady company, terrible service, lying and shit proxies.

thank you for the advice on Real residentials I already know that which is why I thought ISP proxies would be so good as they are "residential but hosted on our own servers"

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lucky.sparks said:

yes yes, Im not taking their side, their communication is bad and they should refund you which probably will happen because I think they are big enough not to risk reputation over 9k.

bartproxies have good scores if static resi ISP is what you are after.(but again need to test as some subnets are marked as proxies, some not).

They have sales thread somewhere in marketplace section and they are dirt cheap.

Wont have rotation tho so you will need to buy new ones every time you need fresh ips and probably eventually they will start to repeat with previously used ones.

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Emit said:

our usual bandwidth usage is 80gb a day, 70~80GB per day. so far I'm at 60GB (6 hours since using Soax)

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roydan said:

This is very similar to what many users reported to happen with PacketStream.

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