Australia proxies
Australia is the country where distance affects collection more than anything else. Round trips from Europe are counted in hundreds of milliseconds, and inside the country Perth and Sydney are thousands of kilometres and different submarine cables apart. What needs planning here is not the address type but where your workers sit and what timeouts they use.
What we have in Australia
Prices are the same as in every other country we cover.
What Australian addresses get used for
Retail price monitoring
eBay Australia, Amazon.com.au, Catch, Kogan, JB Hi-Fi, Bunnings, Woolworths: Australian storefronts are separate, and eBay carries more weight here than in Europe.
Classifieds and second-hand
Gumtree, Carsales for cars, realestate.com.au and Domain for property, Seek for jobs.
Local search and SEO
google.com.au and the local map pack: results are their own set, and the cities are far enough apart for them to diverge.
Ad verification
news.com.au, ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age: campaigns bought for an Australian audience do not render for a foreign address.
What looks different from outside Australia
These serve an Australian visitor something other than what a foreign one sees, because of broadcast rights and local catalogues. We sell addresses rather than a way past detection.
Which type to take for an Australian job
Home connection addresses, billed per gigabyte, rotating by default.
Retail, classifieds, search results, ad checks
Addresses in Australian datacenters, traffic unmetered.
Volume collection where the target ignores address class
A carrier address behind NAT, shared with real subscribers.
Social platforms and apps that expect a phone
Cities people ask for here
Cities are set with the _city_ suffix. The population lives in a band along the coast so the pool follows that shape, and the distances between cities are larger than in any European country.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Residential, country levelThe default: targets check the country rather than the city.
- 02Datacenter, SydneyVolume collection where the target is neutral, and the best routes in the country.
- 03Workers closer to the targetNot an address type but a placement: from Europe a job takes roughly twice as long.
- 04Mobile addressPlatforms expecting carrier traffic.
Connection strings for Australia
The country code is AU, upper case. The city goes after it with _city_, hyphens instead of spaces, in the order country, city, session, lifetime.
Australian static addresses take no suffixes: the host is the IP from your dashboard, port 50100, SOCKS5 on 50101.
Australian exits, four ways
curl -x login_c_AU:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# held for fifteen minutes on session 42
curl -x login_c_AU_s_42_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# Perth, which routes and reports time differently from the east coast
curl -x login_c_AU_city_Perth_s_43_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# an Australian static address: no suffixes
curl -x login:password@YOUR-AU-IP:50100 https://api.ipify.orgDistance decides here, not the address type
On most pages in this section the main question is which product to buy. In Australia the main question is a different one: where you are calling from.
Round trips from Europe are counted in hundreds of milliseconds rather than the tens you see between European countries. Across a thousand requests that is invisible; across a hundred thousand it turns a six hour job into a twelve hour one, and no choice of address type changes it.
Distances inside the country are real too. Perth is thousands of kilometres from the east coast, with its own time zone and its own submarine cables heading toward Asia. A request from Sydney to Perth takes noticeably longer than one within the east coast.
The practical conclusion: keep workers closer to the target when the volume is large, and do not drop the client timeout below thirty seconds. Throughput here comes from the number of parallel addresses, and impatience will not compensate for geography.
What actually blocks you on Australian targets
The familiar split, with Australia closer to the friendly end.
Large retail and the classifieds platforms filter hosting ranges: expect a 403 from datacenter and plan for residential.
Publishers and reference sites serve datacenter addresses normally.
Broadcasters are the strictest group: they check the country hard and are known for turning away not only hosting ranges but a share of residential ones as well.
Search results are reachable but rate limited per address: more addresses rather than a different type.
Which exits you get here, and how stable they are
The Australian pool in practical terms.
The population lives in a narrow band along the coast and the pool follows that shape: Sydney and Melbourne are reliable, Brisbane and Perth hold up, Adelaide is thinner, and the interior is close to empty.
There are three time zones here, so an antidetect profile has to be configured from the city rather than the country: a Perth address reporting Sydney time is two hours out, and three for part of the year.
Sticky sessions behave normally and home lines are stable. What genuinely sets Australia apart is the baseline response time, and that comes from geography rather than from the pool.
Choosing the type for an Australian target
The usual order, except that the first step here is about placement rather than type.
- First look at where you are calling from. If the workers are in Europe and the volume is large, moving them closer will do more than any change of product.
- Start with datacenter in Sydney. If the target serves you normally, stop: $1.15 per address per month.
- A 403 on the first request means hosting ranges are filtered. Move to country-level residential.
- A 429 after many requests is a per-address rate limit: more addresses, not a different type.
- Take mobile where the platform expects a carrier.
What Australian sites check beyond the address
An Australian address opens the first gate, and after that things are simpler here than in Asia.
Language is not an issue: the internet here is English, and en-AU or en-US create no contradiction. That puts Australia alongside India and apart from Japan, Korea and Thailand.
The timezone, by contrast, is harder than usual: there are three, and they do not agree on daylight saving between states. Configure the profile from the city rather than the country.
Then the usual: consent banners hide content, and a scraper that does not handle them captures an empty page under a successful status code.
What a month of Australian work costs
Three scenarios at our prices, so you have something to check a quote against.
- Price monitoring across Australian retail, 30,000 listings a day with images blocked, roughly 85 KB per page. That is about 2.6 GB a day, around 78 GB a month: $78 on residential.
- If the targets are neutral, the same jobs on ten datacenter addresses cost $13.50 a month.
- Moving workers closer to the target costs nothing at all and saves more time than any other change you can make in this country.
The legal part, stated plainly
Australia has its own privacy legislation, separate from the European regime. Collecting data that identifies people in Australia is governed by it regardless of where your company sits or which address your traffic exits through.
This is general information rather than legal advice. Our terms require lawful use and we act on abuse reports. Where the answer carries commercial risk, ask a lawyer.
Verifying an Australian exit
Under a minute. A timing measurement is added to the second check here: it tells you whether moving workers is worth it before the volume tells you the hard way.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Australian, and in which city
curl -s -x login_c_AU:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json
# 2. what the round trip costs from where you actually run
curl -o /dev/null -s -w "total: %{time_total}s\n" \
-x login_c_AU:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# 3. does the sticky session hold
for i in 1 2 3; do
curl -s -x login_c_AU_s_42_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo
doneQuestions people ask before buying Australian addresses
Why are requests so slow?
Round trips from Europe are counted in hundreds of milliseconds: that is geography rather than the proxy. Keep workers closer to the target and do not shorten timeouts.
Do I need city targeting?
For content usually not, targets check the country. For the profile timezone the city matters: there are three of them here.
Why does Perth behave differently?
It is thousands of kilometres from the east coast, with its own time zone and its own submarine cables. A request from Sydney to Perth takes longer than one within the east.
Do I need residential here?
For large retail and classifieds yes, they filter hosting ranges. Publishers and reference sites serve datacenter normally.
Do Australian addresses cost more?
No. Prices are the same everywhere: residential from $1.00 per GB, datacenter from $1.15 per address per month, mobile from $5.76 per day.
Do I need to send a special language header?
No, the internet here is English and en-AU or en-US create no contradiction.