AT&T by the Hour

Two hours on an AT&T line costs $2 on 4G or $3 on 5G, and that is often all a job needs. You pick AT&T and a city, the dashboard hands you a host, two ports and a login, and the meter starts. This page is for people deciding whether AT&T is the right carrier for the next couple of hours: what an IP lookup reports about the address, which of our cities hold AT&T hardware, how 4G and 5G differ on this network, how rotation behaves on AT&T, and exactly what the bill looks like as the hours tick by.

The lookup result, field by field

Paste one of our AT&T addresses into any IP lookup and the organization comes back as AT&T Mobility, with the route announced from AS20057. That autonomous system is the one AT&T uses for its wireless customers, so the address is indistinguishable in origin from the phone of any AT&T subscriber in the same region. The connection type field reads cellular or mobile. There is no hosting provider, no data center name and no residential ISP in the result.

The address is also shared. AT&T puts many subscribers behind each public address through carrier-grade NAT, so at the moment you connect, a crowd of ordinary phones is using the same number for their own apps. Websites know this, which is why mobile addresses are judged by what the traffic does rather than by the address itself. On an hourly line the traffic during your hours is yours alone, so what the site judges is your own behavior and nothing else.

Where the AT&T hardware is

We run modems, routers and phones in eight places: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, North Carolina and Boston, and AT&T SIMs are spread across them. How many AT&T lines are free in a given city changes through the day as other people's hours start and end, so the checkout shows live availability per city and carrier rather than a fixed list. If the city you want shows no AT&T right now, you can take another carrier there, take AT&T in a neighboring city, or ask [email protected] when one is expected back.

Each line is one physical AT&T SIM in one device that we own. During your hours nobody else is on it. When your hours end and the line returns to stock, the next customer gets the same SIM, which is why the address you see is a live carrier address and not something recycled from a data center range.

4G or 5G AT&T for the next two hours

AT&T lines come in both flavors. A 4G line usually delivers 20 to 45 Mbps, which is more than enough for checking search results, logging into accounts, running a scraper that fetches pages, or testing an app against a real US mobile network. A 5G line runs at 50 Mbps and up, depending on the signal at the device, and is the one to pick when the job moves large files, records video sessions or needs lower latency for a timed test.

The hourly price follows the radio: 4G is $2 for the first two hours and $2 for each hour after; 5G is $3 for the first two hours and $3 for each hour after. For a two-hour job, the difference between 4G and 5G is one dollar, so if you are unsure, the dollar buys you the faster line.

Rotation and holding an address on AT&T

Rotating an AT&T line tears down the modem's data session and brings up a new one, and AT&T's gateway assigns the new session an address from the same regional pool. You may get a fresh address or one the SIM held earlier; either way it stays AT&T in the same metro. You trigger rotation from the dashboard, by calling the rotation link, through the API, on a timer, or by hand, and there is no limit on how many times you do it inside your hours.

If you do not rotate, the address stays as long as AT&T keeps the session up. In practice a line with some traffic flowing holds its address for a long time, and an idle one may be reassigned sooner. For a job that signs in and stays signed in, leave rotation alone until the job is done and rotate between jobs instead.

Who rents AT&T by the hour

Developers testing how an app behaves on a real AT&T connection, including DNS, captive portal and IPv6 behavior, buy two hours and are done. Ad and search teams verifying what an AT&T customer in a particular city sees run a pass and let the meter stop. Account managers whose client has an AT&T phone number sometimes want the carrier of the proxy to match the carrier of the number. And people who have only ever used T-Mobile or Verizon lines rent an AT&T hour to see whether a particular site treats it differently. None of these jobs justify a monthly plan, which is the point of selling the hour.

How the hourly purchase works

Choose AT&T, choose a city, choose 4G or 5G, and pay $2 or $3 from your balance, by card, PayPal, crypto, Zelle or wire. The line is live immediately and the first two hours are yours. Need more? Add an hour at a time, $2 on 4G or $3 on 5G, up to four hours in one purchase. The block never renews on its own; when the hours are gone the line stops, and nothing further is charged.

If the job is clearly going to run all day, do not keep adding hours. The dashboard will convert the purchase into a day pass, $5 on 4G or $6 on 5G, and count what you already paid toward it. Three hours on 4G is $4, so the day costs you one dollar more at that point. The same thing can be bought in the Telegram bot, @HourlyProxiesBot, and in the mobile app, with the same prices.

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