Minimum Connection Time Filter

Evomi Residential Proxies offer a connection stability filter that ensures you only receive IPs that have maintained persistent connections to our network. This feature is particularly valuable when using sticky sessions or conducting long-running transactions.

How It Works

The _activesince-<minutes> parameter filters IPs based on their continuous connection duration to our system:

  • Measures time since IP first became available in our pool
  • Only selects IPs active for at least the specified minutes
  • Higher minimum times = increased connection stability
  • Particularly effective when combined with session parameters

Usage

Add _activesince-<minutes> to your proxy password:

http://testuser:[email protected]:1000

Implementation Examples

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Important Considerations

  1. This is an extra feature with increased bandwidth costs
  2. Higher minimum times reduce available IP pool size
  3. Due to a number of factors its possible for ips to reconnect in batches, slashing the number of available IPs for a certain minimum time to 0, make sure to handle errors on your side if no IP is available.
  4. Recommended maximum: 240 minutes (4 hours)
  5. Combines best with session or hardsession parameters
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Stability vs Availability Tradeoff
While longer-active IPs provide better stability, setting extremely high values (>300 minutes) may significantly limit available IPs. We recommend starting with 60-120 minute thresholds.

Ideal For

  • Financial data scraping
  • Multi-step checkout processes
  • Account management workflows
  • API interactions requiring persistent IP behavior