Network quality
Counted on our own network and published as counted: how often connections open, how fast, whether IPs are in the place asked, and the fraud scores of a weekly random sample of IPs. Connections over the last 7 days first, then the last 30; every connection and every check, none picked by hand.
Method
How these numbers are counted
- Connections. Every connection a customer opens through our gateway, counted once with its final outcome after our automatic retries (up to three tries within 10 seconds). Refusals of our own never reach the network and aren't counted: a wrong password, no GB left, a blocked mail port.
- Open time. Measured at our gateway, so it leaves out the distance between you and the gateway. Times are kept in buckets from 100 ms to 30 seconds; the median and 95th percentile are read from them, in a straight line within a bucket.
- Regions. The gateway copy the customer reached. Each customer reaches the nearest one; datacenter proxies have their own gateway in Amsterdam.
- Location checks. A check is one new same-IP line in Find accurate IPs. An IP that turns up twice in the same search counts once. “Within 25 km” is measured from the city's centre in GeoNames, whatever distance the customer chose.
- Random sample. Once a week, new rotating residential lines are opened on the same network and with the same settings as customer lines, but with our own login, so no customer's GB is used. Nothing filters them. Lines per run: no country picked 25%, United States 30%, United Kingdom 6%, Germany 5%, Canada 4%, France 4%, Brazil 4%, India 3%, Australia 3%, Netherlands 2%, Italy 2%, Spain 2%, Japan 2%, Mexico 2%, Poland 2%, Turkey 2%, Pakistan 2%. Each IP that answers is scored once by the IP reputation service. The lookups come out of the same monthly allowance as Find accurate IPs and Check, so a run stops early when that allowance runs low; each run's number of IPs is shown.
- What's kept. Hourly counts only, and the random sample's counts by country and score: no logins, sites or IP addresses. This page shows the last 30 days, with connections over the last 7 also on their own, first.
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