The address and port of a proxy server are the specific IP address and port number that the proxy server uses to communicate with clients and forward their requests to other servers. These details are essential for configuring devices or applications to route their internet traffic through the proxy server.
What is a proxy IP address?
A proxy IP address is the IP address of a proxy server, which acts as an intermediary between a client (such as your computer or smartphone) and the internet. When you use a proxy server, your internet traffic is routed through this server before reaching its final destination. This can provide several benefits, including privacy, security, and the ability to bypass geographic restrictions. This is the numerical label assigned to the proxy server, which can be in IPv4 (e.g., 192.168.1.1) or IPv6 (e.g., 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334) format.
How Proxy Servers Work
- Client Request: Your device sends a request to access a website or service.
- Proxy Server: The request goes to the proxy server, which has its own IP address.
- Forwarding Request: The proxy server forwards your request to the destination server.
- Response: The destination server responds to the proxy server.
- Proxy Server Sends Response: The proxy server sends the response back to your device.
What is a proxy port?
A proxy port is a connection gateway to the proxy network. This is the specific port on the proxy server that is used for communication, typically a number between 1 and 65535. Common proxy server ports include 8080, 3128, and 1080.
Lets take the case of our rotating mobile proxies. They have port pricing with 1, 3, 7 and 30 days plans.
The number of ports you choose gives you the number of access points you can use on our network at any given time.
For example: if you get 1 port, you will have one access point to our network to use one rotating IP address. IP that rotates at minimum 30 min. But with 3 ports, you get 3 access points at the same time. This means that you can use 3 rotating proxies at once. In other words, the number of ports is the number of proxy connections you want to get.
Unlike the rotating mobile proxies, residential proxies have bandwidth pricing and use a single port number: 9989
Bandwidth is the number of GB (Gigabytes) you buy to use during your connections via the proxy network.
As an example, if you buy 1 GB and the accessed site has 2 MB pages, in theory, you can use up to 500 different IPs.
Each time you access that particular page, you use 2 MB, hence 1 GB (which is 1000 GB) will be used to access the same page 500 times, each time via a different IP.