What is a residential IP proxy? What are the advantages of a residential IP proxy?

1. What is a residential IP?

IP addresses are mainly divided into two categories: residential IP and data center IP. Residential IP is an IP address assigned to individual users by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or ADSL provider. It often appears in home networks and is used by real users of 100% WIFI networks. These IPs are the same as those used by ordinary network users and are associated with actual physical locations. Your ISP will provide a unique IP address based on your geographical location.

2. Characteristics of Residential IP

Residential IPs have three notable characteristics: non-consecutive numbers, scattered distribution, and consistent distribution with ordinary netizens. Compared with computer room IPs, residential IPs are less likely to be blocked, giving them a higher success rate. However, residential IPs may be slightly inferior in maintaining stability, but for those businesses that require a large number of short-term dynamic IPs, such as crawler collection, volume replenishment business, SEO, etc., residential IPs have huge advantages.

It is worth noting that residential proxies work differently from datacenter proxies, with residential proxies being more demanding but more reliable, and more prone to being blocked. While datacenter proxies are cheaper, residential proxies use real mobile devices and desktop computers as intermediaries for the connection, so they tend to perform better.

Reasons for choosing a residential agent

If you need to hide your IP address for various reasons such as scraping data from multiple websites or running multiple accounts on the same device, a residential IP is the best choice in these cases because it not only assigns a real IP address but also hides the real IP from the server to achieve online anonymity.

4. Advantages of Residential IP

Compared to data center proxies, residential proxies are legally provided to homeowners by ISPs and are real IP addresses that connect to homes through Internet service providers. These IPs are trusted by most websites, so they are less likely to be blacklisted.

5. How to get your own proxy IP and port

1. Press the "win" + "R" keys on the keyboard;
2. Enter the "cmd" command to enter the command line interface;
3. Type the "ipconfig" command and press Enter
4. The query result is the IP address and port number of your proxy server