Residential IP proxies use real home broadband IP addresses to simulate the network behaviour of ordinary users, making it extremely difficult for target websites to identify them as proxy traffic. ipipgo and other professional service providers provide residential IPs that can be traced back to specific carriers, which have a high degree of authenticity and credibility. After a cross-border e-commerce company used residential IP, the verification rate of the customer service system increased from 47% to 92%, and the response speed also increased by 30%. Residential IP is particularly suitable for scenarios that require highly anthropomorphic access behaviours, such as social media operations and e-commerce account management.

Data centre IP proxies, on the other hand, come from cloud servers or professional server rooms, which are less costly but easy to identify. In terms of technical features, data centre IPs usually have higher bandwidth and lower latency, and are suitable for scenarios that require high speed but not strict anonymity, such as video streaming access. A smart hardware manufacturer builds an overseas proxy via VPS to achieve a high bandwidth, low latency network environment suitable for game servers or live video streaming. However, there are obvious limitations of data centre IP, such as an Amazon seller's account blocking rate was as high as 40% after using data centre IP, which dropped to 5% after switching to residential IP.

The technical differences between residential IPs and data centre IPs are mainly reflected in three aspects:

Distribution Method

Residential IPs are directly assigned to home users by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and are usually strongly correlated with geographic location (e.g., the residential IP of a home in the U.S. will be shown as a neighbourhood in New York City in a WHOIS query). Data centre IPs, on the other hand, are centrally assigned by cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, AliCloud) and deployed on servers in the data centre, with no fixed geo-labelling.  

Network Characteristics

Residential IPs have the following characteristics:

Dynamic allocation: lifecycle is typically 24-72 hours, with periodic replacement using the DHCP protocol

Low port opening rate Low port opening rate: Only common ports such as 80/443 are open, and traffic is intermittent and low concurrency

Geographic consistency: ASNs (Autonomous System Numbers) are usually labelled ‘Comcast’ and ‘ATT’. ‘, ’AT&T" and other home broadband carriers

Characteristics of data centre IP include:

Fixed address segments: e.g. 34.0.0.0/8 for AWS, 4.0.64.0.0/8 for Microsoft, 4.0.64.0.0/8 for Microsoft, and 4.0.64.0.0/8 for Microsoft. 0.64.0.0/10 and other enterprise-class address segments.

High bandwidth: Gbps-class throughput support, with a large number of non-standard ports open (e.g., game service ports 27015-27030) 4 Stable traffic: high concurrency and smooth 24/7, commonly used for enterprise-level services.

Applicable Scenarios

Residential IPs are suitable for scenarios requiring high anonymity, such as cross-border e-commerce anti-blocking shops and social media multi-account operations; data centre IPs are suitable for short-term, cost-sensitive tasks such as hig.