In any case, the connection speed was below average. Either it’s a second coincidence, or IPRoyal is reselling to some extent. My guess is that the server was overused but then again, we ran the test for 14 days.Īll in all, PacketStream’s results were nearly identical to IPRoyal. Surprisingly, it turned out to be the slowest location, even slower than Australia. Knowing that PacketStream is an American provider, we expected its proxies to be fastest in the US. Response time comparison connecting via country gateways The only non-premium (looking at the price) provider to compete with them was Smartproxy. Bright Data established a connection more than twice, and Oxylabs nearly three times faster. However, the proxy server wasn’t particularly fast. PacketStream managed to beat GeoSurf, NetNut, and Shifter, all of which cost several times more. The residential proxies had a high success rate, especially for an affordable provider. The percentage was slightly lower in the US, where an IP database identified nearly 8% as datacenter, but otherwise up to par with premium providers.
On the bright side, PacketStream’s proxies did come from residential devices. Pool Composition Percentage of IPs associated with landline and/or mobile internet services. Strangely enough, PacketStream had the largest presence in Russia.Ĭompared to others, PacketStream had a nearly identical composition as IPRoyal both providers failed to make an impression: Its American pool was larger but considering PacketStream’s price and attitude toward reselling, I’d expect the proxies to be pretty abused. PacketStream only managed to muster around 5,000 IPs in most European locations and fewer than 500 in Australia. Results with country gateways were similarly underwhelming. Both GeoSurf and SOAX, which advertise fewer proxies, displayed better results. In our test, PacketStream had among the fewest unique IPs – every fourth connection request returned a new proxy during the testing period. Our requests came from a server in Germany. It doesn’t block requests and connects to the nearest Cloudflare data center, making the page ideal for testing proxy infrastructure. The benchmarks are based on a custom script and target Cloudflare’s Trace webpage. We last tested PacketStream for 2022 Proxy Market Research. PacketStream advertises that you can use the proxies anyhow you like, but in reality the terms of service prohibit some use cases, specifically advertisement spam. PacketStream also lacks the option to whitelist IPs, meaning that you’ll have to make do with user:pass authentication. Unfortunately, SOCKS proxies aren’t on the table, so this rules out torrents or streaming sites. The two supported protocols are HTTP and HTTPS. The PacketStream app is available only for desktop OSes, so in theory the sessions should remain alive for quite a while. You can choose rotation on every connection request or to keep the same IP until the source goes offline. These residential proxies are peer-to-peer, so they inevitably rotate. You can get IPs randomly or target particular countries.
Their locations are listed on the dashboard, though there’s no way to know how many IPs each has, so you’ll have to rely on the provider. The proxies cover over 100 countries in the world. It’s not heavy on features, but the essentials are all there.
PacketStream’s residential proxy network includes around 7 million monthly IPs. These IPs come from people who voluntarily share their bandwidth. It’s also a popular option for reselling, so you may be using PacketStream’s proxies without knowing it.Ĭurrently, PacketStream sells only residential proxies. But at the same time, PacketStream is extremely reliant on the so-called ‘packeters’, or bandwidth sellers – their whims can make or break the whole network.Īs a general-purpose provider, PacketStream is used for various purposes, ranging from one-off web scraping projects to sneaker copping. It’s also dumped the prices to impressive lows. This straightforward business model has allowed PacketStream to collect a respectable number of residential IPs in short notice. By now, it’s become a popular method for sourcing residential IPs. Where other proxy services would bury SDKs into popular apps, the provider offered people to straight up sell their bandwidth for money, turning them into proxy servers. PacketStream created one of the first proxy marketplaces. The founder and team initially marketed the project on various channels, but their active marketing efforts seem to have ended in 2019. It was established in 2018 by Ronald Bell. PacketStream is an American proxy provider.
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