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As for the NiuProxy test and the Reddit matter, neither independently establishes that a NiuProxy account was billed incorrectly. The relevant evidence is the actual NiuProxy account usage and order records.
That's what should be used to verify any billing discrepancy.
We don't think a public yes/no statement taken out of the context of a specific account would meaningfully resolve this dispute.
The relevant question is not what can be inferred from screenshots or individual tests, but what the actual NiuProxy account records show. If you believe your account was billed incorrectly, the order and usage records are the appropriate evidence to verify that.
We have nothing further to add based on screenshots from another brand or moderation decisions on another platform.
why can you not explain how the billing is? in short sentences no long bla story.
Count both upstream and downstream.
So you're confirming that the upstream and downstream charges will only be applied one, not double, right?
Are you sure?
And another ridiculous thing, you say you have no connection to okkproxy, so why is my okkproxy account also banned when I try to log in with niuproxy.com ? Haha
And once again, please confirm that you only charge upstream and downstream once, and don't charge the reverse direction with double bandwidth.
If you dare confirm this, I will send you a video showing that you are completely lying.
https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1788178163095-f66e1bf9-d90a-402a-a86f-6cca4c090ec8.png
gosh who would have expected shady shit from residential proxy providers?
Your NiuProxy account was restricted due to security-related factors associated with your previous activity.
This is an account-management matter and has nothing to do with how bandwidth usage is calculated.
Yes. NiuProxy calculates usage based on normal upstream + downstream traffic consumption. Each direction is counted as its actual traffic usage, not artificially doubled.
Being a little more open about the details would go a long way for dispelling mistrust. I'm sure @popproqn wouldn't mind considering you both feel like the full details will exonerate you. All we have now is a he-said she-said situation with severely missing context and contradictory claims.
This is the most detailed video testing how Niuproxy calculates traffic, and I've also clearly explained the entire testing process in the text file.
Looking at the initial results, the total bandwidth used was 190MB at the start of the test.
After running the test on a 100MB file, you can see that instead of calculating only 100MB and using 290MB of bandwidth,
the bandwidth used became 390MB. You can see in the statics that they calculated that download at 200MB, even though clearly only 100MB was downloaded in curl.
Therefore, you are clearly seeing double the data usage, contrary to your previous claims.
This video may take you 3 minutes
because this proxy provider only updates bandwidth at even hours, once every hour.
For everyone using Niuproxy and OkkProxy proxies, you can try checking using my method or yours.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ksQzXJKbFxSoVOq1nZzsj_WVYQqSQHAj/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YKA5hfpUYXpFHH4GqLScZay1tfJX0JaS/view?usp=sharing
Unable to pay with Alipay.
This matches their claim.
When you download a 100MB file through an HTTP proxy, two TCP flows are established:
The file has to go through both TCP flows.
From the proxy’s point of view, this would be ~100MB inbound traffic (from the HTTP server) and ~100MB outbound traffic (to the HTTP client).
Hence, you see the traffic meter incremented by 200MB.
If you deploy HTTP client, proxy, server on three separate VPS that each counts traffic in both directions, and then replicate this experiment:
Whether it’s fair to meter traffic like this, it’s a good question.
We’d say it’s fair, because if a proxy operator only meters traffic on one of the two flows, it would be possible to construct a scenario where one flow has significantly higher traffic usage than the other.
For example, if we only meter the client-proxy side:
Accept-Encoding: gzip.Now, the proxy operator could only bill less than 1MB of traffic on the client-proxy flow, while spending 100MB on the proxy-server flow.
If the proxy runs on a VPS, the VPS would have consumed 101MB.
Well they're selling proxy bandwidth, not raw bandwidth. Proxying 100MB means that 100MB goes from the server to the proxy and then 100MB goes from the proxy to the client. Total amount proxied is 100MB because proxying means both directions. If you sell someone 100MB of proxy, you better let the proxy download 100MB and upload 100MB.
If your ISP sells you a 1TB bandwidth allowance, you don't expect it to run out after downloading 500GB because the data had to come into your ISP network, and then go out of your ISP network, right? No, they're saying they'll let 1TB come through the network, which includes both ingressing 1TB and egressing 1TB.
Now what I actually want to know: is there a way to get paid for running a proxy at my house?
if a user downloads 100MB through the proxy:
User <- 100MB <- Proxy <- 100MB <- Serverthe proxy receives 100MB from the server, then sends the same 100MB to the user. so from the proxy's point of view, that's 100MB inbound + 100MB outbound = 200MB of traffic.
ISP bandwidth allowances use different billing models.
That's what the proxy owner has to pay for the bandwidth from their hosting company. This is 100MB of traffic being proxied, and that is what the proxy owner sells to their customer. If that means the proxy traffic has to cost double the hosting provider traffic, so be it.
yeah - they use one that makes sense. Paying for 100MB, means you buy the right to pass 100MB of data THROUGH the network, meaning, in one side AND out the other, not just one half of the equation.
Said differently, you only pay for the connection between you and the ISP - the other side is the ISP's problem. And when proxying you pay for the connection between you and the proxy.
Why are you trying so hard to justify what is either a simple bug or a stupid money grab? Are you just being contrarian?
I've used many different providers, and I've never seen any provider charge a two-way fee like that. Can you give me an example if you know of a provider that charges a two-way fee?
And in the process, I found an upstream provider where okkproxy and niuproxy obtain proxies to resell to me, and that upstream provider doesn't charge any two-way fees.
Then I asserted that this provider doesn't charge a two-way fee like they do, but they didn't believe me.
Then I presented concrete evidence showing how that upstream provider calculates bandwidth and that they don't charge a two-way fee.
So, are the other providers accepting losses?
I'm with literally dozens of providers, and I can think of just one that doesn't meter on in+out.
I can confirm that I've used over 15 different providers and tested over 15 of them, and none of them charge two-way fees like that.
Could you give me a few names of the providers you're saying are charging two-way fees? I'll check them out.
Are they selling you servers or are they selling you proxies?