An IP address identifies a device. A gateway address is the device your traffic leaves through. Confusing the two is behind a good share of proxy configuration mistakes.
Your IP address is where you are. Your default gateway is the way out. On a home network your
computer might be 192.168.1.24 and the router 192.168.1.1: the first is your
address on that network, the second is the address of the machine that forwards your traffic
onward.
On Windows, ipconfig lists your address and the line labelled "Default Gateway". On
macOS or Linux, ip route shows a line starting with default via, and that is
your gateway. Neither of these is the address the wider internet sees you as — that is your public
address, which your router owns and which you can read with any IP checker.
So there are three distinct things, and the confusion usually comes from having only two names for them: your private address, your gateway on the local network, and the public address your traffic appears to come from.
When a rotating proxy service gives you gw.pyproxy.com:1111, that is a gateway in the
same sense: a single door your requests go through, behind which the service picks an exit address for
you. You never hold the individual addresses, and that is the point. The pool changes constantly, so a
list would be stale before you finished downloading it.
This is why a rotating product has one hostname and a static product has a list. With static ISP or datacentre addresses you are renting specific addresses and you connect to each directly. With rotating traffic you connect to the gateway and it decides.
Software that asks for a "proxy server" wants the gateway host and port, not the exit address you saw in an IP checker. People sometimes read the address their traffic came out of, paste that into their tool, and get a connection refused — the exit address was never listening for them, and by the time they tried it may not even be in the pool.
The working shape is always the gateway plus your credentials:
Host: gw.pyproxy.com Port: 1111 (3128 and 8888 answer identically) User: your sub-account, optionally with -country-us Pass: your proxy password
If a corporate or mobile network blocks the port you chose, switch to one of the others. Same gateway, same credentials — only the port differs.
On Windows run ipconfig and read the Default Gateway line. On macOS or Linux run ip route and read the address after 'default via'.
No. The gateway is the local device that forwards your traffic, usually your router. Your public address is what the rest of the internet sees, and it belongs to your provider.
The gateway, with the port and your credentials. The exit address is the result of a request, not something you connect to.
Because the pool changes constantly. The gateway picks a fresh exit address per request, or holds one for a sticky session of about thirty minutes if you ask it to.
