Frequently Asked Questions

Residential proxies route web traffic through real residential IP addresses assigned by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to residential homeowners. Unlike datacenter proxies, these carry the highest trust scores, making them virtually indistinguishable from organic human visitors.

Premium uses a large global pool of 85M+ IPs with country targeting, which is ideal for everyday scraping. Elite uses a highly curated, cleaner pool with city and ISP-level targeting for more demanding, high-security platforms. Learn more on our Premium Residential and Elite Residential pages.

Aethyn supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 proxy connections natively. You can switch protocols easily by changing the gateway port.

Aethyn supports both rotating sessions (fresh IP on every request) and sticky sessions (maintaining the same exit IP for up to 30 minutes for multi-step browser automation workflows).

Websites protect themselves from automated tools by flagging datacenter IP ranges. Residential proxies bypass these protections because they look like real organic household traffic, minimizing CAPTCHAs and blocks.

Aethyn provides residential exit nodes in over 195 countries worldwide, enabling precise location-based data access.

Aethyn supports unlimited concurrent threads, allowing you to scale your scraping operations as much as your plan allows.

They are optimized for high-volume tasks such as price monitoring, broad web scraping, travel aggregation, and general SEO audits. See details on Premium Residential Proxies.

Yes, they support sticky sessions of up to 30 minutes, allowing you to run continuous browser automation sessions on a single IP.

Yes. Premium Residential is a strong fit for ad verification because it lets teams validate regional ad delivery, landing page compliance, and campaign placement from real residential IP locations.

Elite proxies use a curated high-reputation IP pool with the lowest block rates, and they add city-level and ISP-level targeting. This is essential for sneaker drops, social media, and targets with strict CDNs. See details on Elite Residential Proxies.

Yes. You can target specific network operators (ISPs) and major cities directly through the proxy credential parameter format.

Yes, our Elite proxies are specifically tested against Shopify's anti-bot measures and are highly optimized for retail releases.

At Aethyn, we focus exclusively on high-reputation Premium and Elite residential proxies. We do not offer datacenter proxies because they are easily detected and pre-emptively blocked by modern security CDNs.

Datacenter proxies have faster raw connection speeds since they run on server hardware, but they suffer from high block rates. Residential proxies route through home networks (slightly higher latency) but offer nearly 100% success rates on secure domains.

Aethyn charges on a pay-as-you-go, per-byte metered bandwidth basis. There are no subscriptions, monthly minimums, or expiring bandwidth limits. You can configure plans on our Pricing Page.

We accept credit and debit cards via Stripe, and major cryptocurrencies (USDT, BTC, ETH) via B2BinPay.

Aethyn offers a starter balance for new users to test our Elite and Premium pools. Sign up here.

Aethyn uses standard username:password authentication. The entry point works natively in curl, Python, Node.js, Puppeteer, Playwright, Scrapy, and standard browser automation tools.

Targeting is configured by appending parameters to your username string, such as `user-country-us` or `user-city-newyork` for Elite.

A 407 error indicates incorrect credentials. A 429 error means you are rate-limited (use rotating sessions). A 403 means the target blocked you (upgrade to Elite Residential). A 502/504 means the peer disconnected (retry the request).

We prioritize compliance and ethical sourcing. Our IPs are sourced from verified KYC partner networks and consent-based SDK users who explicitly opt-in to share idle bandwidth.

Yes. Aethyn routes your requests securely, does not log PII (Personally Identifiable Information), and complies with global data protection frameworks like GDPR and CCPA.