What 922 S5 Proxy actually was, and what it did well
922 S5 Proxy was unusual in a specific and genuinely useful way: it sold IPs rather than gigabytes. You bought a quantity of residential IPs, browsed the pool by country, city, postcode and ISP, and the ones you selected became yours to use for as long as they stayed alive in the pool, with no meter running on the traffic through them. Almost every other residential provider bills bytes; 922 billed identities.
Delivery matched that model. A Windows desktop client held your purchased IPs and bound them to ports on 127.0.0.1, so each anti-detect browser profile pointed at a different local port rather than at a remote gateway. Batch port forwarding meant one operator could stand up dozens or hundreds of profiles in a session. It supported HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, and integrated in that way with AdsPower, Multilogin, Dolphin Anty and similar tools.
That shape fitted one workload extremely well: many separate identities, each doing very little traffic. Social account management, marketplace and sneaker operations, and anything where an account's value comes from IP stability rather than throughput. If you ran fifty profiles that collectively moved a few hundred megabytes a month, a per-IP price was straightforwardly cheaper than a per-GB one, and it made costs predictable in a way bandwidth billing does not.
- Priced per IP, not per GB — unmetered traffic through each IP you owned
- Hand-picked IPs from a browsable pool, filtered by country, city, postcode and ISP
- Windows client mapped each IP to a local SOCKS5 port for anti-detect browser profiles
- Self-serve and low-friction: no sales call, no enterprise contract, no minimum commitment
Choosing a replacement for 922 S5 Proxy
If you are reading this because your client stopped connecting, the situation is straightforward at the practical level. 922proxy.com, the domain the dashboard and desktop client depended on, no longer resolves in public DNS. Public reporting through late 2025 describes signups closing and dashboard logins ending; in January 2026 Google announced an action against Ipidea, a residential proxy operator, and named 922 Proxy among the consumer-facing brands associated with it. This page does not attempt to adjudicate any of that. The consequence for you is simple: the account, the client and the IPs are not reachable, and IPs from a disrupted pool carry reputation history wherever they surface next.
Two lessons carry forward regardless of which provider you pick. First, treat any downloadable client as a dependency you do not control — when it is the only way to reach the pool, it is also the only thing that has to fail. Credential-based access, where a host, a port and a username and password are all you need, survives a vendor's frontend going away and works identically from a laptop, a Linux server or a container. Second, ask how a pool is sourced and whether that sourcing is disclosed, because provenance is what determines whether the addresses are already flagged when you first dial them.
Whatever you evaluate next, evaluate it small. A provider that requires a large upfront purchase before you can see whether its IPs geolocate where they claim and pass your targets' checks is asking you to take the important part on faith.
- Can you reach the pool with plain credentials, without installing anything?
- Is the geolocation you select the geolocation the target site actually sees?
- Do the addresses come up clean on a blacklist and IP-reputation check before you commit?
- Can you buy a small amount first and test against your real targets rather than a demo?
How Nefo billing differs from per-IP proxies
Nefo meters bandwidth, not identities. You buy prepaid gigabytes — the smallest top-up is 5GB, $4.50 ($0.90/GB) — and flexible plans are non-expiring, so unused bandwidth sits in the account until you spend it rather than resetting at the end of a month. Per-GB rates fall as volume rises, but there is no subscription to hold, no seat count and no renewal date to defend.
The inversion worth understanding is this: generating credentials is free, and only traffic through them consumes bandwidth. Where 922 charged you per identity and gave the traffic away, Nefo charges for the traffic and gives the identities away. If you run one profile per account, you can create as many distinct credentials as you have profiles at zero cost — the bill only reflects the bytes those profiles actually move. For low-traffic multi-account work that can land in a similar place financially, arrived at from the opposite direction.
Access is credential-based over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, with username and password or an IP allowlist — no client to install, nothing bound to localhost, and no reason it should behave differently on a Linux box, in a cron job, in a container or inside an anti-detect browser. Targeting covers 227 countries, with state or region, city and ASN or ISP targeting in most of them when you need to sit on a particular carrier's network.
- Prepaid from 5GB, non-expiring on flexible plans, no subscription
- Unlimited credential generation at no charge — you pay for bytes, not identities
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with username/password or IP allowlist auth; no desktop client required
- 227 countries, with state, city and ASN/ISP targeting in most countries
- Rotating (new IP per request) or sticky (same IP from 1 minute up to 24 hours)
What Nefo cannot do: hold one IP for weeks
This is the difference that matters most if you are coming from 922, and it deserves a direct answer rather than a marketing one. Nefo does not sell you a specific residential IP to own and hold indefinitely on its standard residential product. Sessions there are rotating or sticky, and sticky holds the same address for a configurable period from one minute up to twenty-four hours. That is long enough for a login, a checkout, a multi-step form or a full working day on a profile. If you need to keep one address for longer, the closest fits are a static residential ISP IP (dedicated, rented for 7 to 360 days in 24 countries, from $1.76 for 7 days), IP Vault for a kept residential or mobile IP, or a static IP proxy if a fixed datacenter address works for the job.
If your workflow genuinely depends on the same IP persisting for weeks, buy the product shape that matches the requirement rather than pretending all persistence is equivalent. For a dedicated home-ISP address held for weeks, that means a static residential ISP IP. For a kept residential or mobile address, that means IP Vault. For a fixed non-rotating datacenter address rented per address for a period, that means a static IP proxy. Being clear about which one you need is more useful than pretending a 24-hour sticky session is the same thing.
Nefo also sells some resources by time rather than by byte, and mobile is one of them. Mobile proxies are carrier-grade 4G/5G ports rented per duration, from hours up to 30 days, with one live rotating IP per port that you can keep or change on demand, and US state- and carrier-level targeting. That is closer in feel to renting something: the port is rented for a period, throughput is not metered in gigabytes, and the address behaves like a real handset on a mobile network.
How to migrate from 922 S5 Proxy to Nefo
The mechanical work is smaller than it looks, because the only thing that really changes is what each profile points at. Under the old client, a profile's proxy field held 127.0.0.1 and a local port number, and the client held the mapping between that port and a remote IP. With credential-based access, the profile holds the gateway host and port directly, and the geo and session parameters travel inside the username string. You generate one credential per profile, paste them in, and the local port mapping disappears from the picture entirely.
The mental adjustment is larger than the mechanical one: you have to start estimating bandwidth instead of counting IPs. A useful way in is to run one profile through a metered credential for a few days doing exactly what it normally does, read the consumption in the dashboard, and multiply. Browser-driven account work is typically light per profile; scraping pages with images and third-party scripts is not. For bulk setup, credentials can be exported from the dashboard as CSV and imported into whatever manages your profiles.
Because bandwidth is prepaid from 5GB and does not expire, the sensible sequence is to buy the minimum, rebuild two or three representative profiles rather than all of them, and check the things that actually decide the outcome — does the exit geolocate where you asked, does a sticky session hold for as long as you set it, and do your targets treat the address the way you need them to. Free IP lookup, blacklist and fingerprint tools are available to check that before you scale up.
- Replace 127.0.0.1:port in each profile with the gateway host, port and a per-profile credential
- Set geo and session parameters in the username string rather than in a client UI
- Set sticky duration deliberately — a working session is often better served by hours than by rotation
- Measure real consumption on one profile before sizing a purchase
- Export credentials as CSV for bulk import into your profile manager
- Verify exit geolocation and IP reputation on a 5GB purchase before committing volume
Who should pick per-IP proxies and who should switch
A per-IP product remains the better structure if you need addresses that persist for weeks against a small number of long-lived accounts, and if traffic per address is trivial. Nothing about bandwidth billing improves that case; you would be paying for flexibility you are not using and accepting a session ceiling you do not want. In Nefo's catalogue, that points to static residential ISP IPs, IP Vault when you need to keep a residential or mobile IP, or static IP proxies when a fixed datacenter address is acceptable.
Nefo fits when consumption varies and you would rather not forecast it — prepaid, non-expiring bandwidth means an idle month costs nothing and a heavy one is a top-up rather than a plan change. It fits when access has to be scriptable and portable across Linux servers, containers and CI rather than tied to a desktop application. It fits when you need targeting precision — state and city, or a specific ASN — more than you need address permanence. And it fits when you want to test a provider properly on a small purchase before committing anything meaningful.
For work that is genuinely mobile-shaped, where the target treats carrier IP space differently from residential, the 4G/5G ports on real carrier modems are the closer analogue to the per-identity model you are used to, rented by the day rather than metered by the gigabyte.
Frequently asked questions
No. The original domain no longer resolves in public DNS, and the desktop client relied on it to authenticate and map purchased IPs to local ports. No configuration change restores access because the failure is upstream. Verify any site claiming to be a continuation before entering payment details.
Measure it. Route one representative profile through a metered credential for a few days, read the consumption in the dashboard, then multiply by your profile count. Browser account work is usually light, while scraping with full assets is far heavier. The 5 GB minimum ($4.50) makes the test cheap.
Not for weeks on the standard residential product. Sticky sessions hold one IP from 1 minute to 24 hours per credential. For a longer hold, Nefo offers static residential ISP IPs rented for 7 to 360 days, IP Vault for a kept residential or mobile IP, and static IP proxies for fixed datacenter addresses. See rotating proxies.
There is no client to install. Each credential is a host, port, username and password over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, so it goes in the proxy field of any antidetect browser. Geo and session settings travel in the username, and the same credentials run on servers or containers.
No. Bandwidth is prepaid from 5 GB ($4.50, or $0.90/GB) and flexible plans stay in the account until used. Per-GB rates fall as volume rises, creating credentials is free, and only traffic draws down the balance, so an idle month costs nothing. See pricing.
Test on the smallest purchase before scaling. Confirm the exit IP geolocates where you selected, run it through an IP lookup and blacklist check, verify that a sticky session holds as long as configured, then run your real targets. Free IP lookup, blacklist, WebRTC leak and fingerprint tools cover the first checks.