The service costs $6.95 per month, however, they are currently offering a one-week free trial. Note that the free trial automatically rebills at their full rate after one week. When you signup, you get a few different proxy sites to choose from:

• www.65v.info – running Glype
• www.4b5.info – running CGIProxy, hosting account suspended
• www.c3w.info – running Zelune , hosting account suspended

The ProxyKey website boasts a number of impressive claims:

• Reliability – "We have never had a proxy down before. If we do, we have several backups on different servers so we always have one online."

  Never? No. Two of their three sites are offline at the time of this writing.

• Multiple Location – "We have proxies from multiple domains, IPs, countries (USA and offshore), and different scripts available."

  One working proxy, one IP, one script, none offshore. ProxyKey advertises that 65v.info is located in Melbourne, Australia but in actuality it is located in the FDCservers.net datacenter in Woodstock, IL.

• Super Fast Access – "We have a Dedicated 1 Megabyte per second (Mbps) line per user so you never have to worry about slow loading time."

  Absurd. A dedicated 1 megabit line per user is clearly not provided as the “line” is shared amongst all users of the service. Also, Mbps is the abbreviation for “megabit per second”, a very different measurement than megabytes and hardly “super fast”. Users are unlikely to "never have to worry about slow loading time”.

• Unlimited File Download Size – "We do not have a limit on the size of the files you download so feel free to stream video or access large files."

  The proxy script used on ProxyKey’s only working proxy is Glype and it does not support any sort of streaming media. I visited YouTube via the proxy and confirmed that no videos would display.

• Never Blocked – "One major problem with proxies is that they are often themselves blocked. We take preventative measures to make sure that we are never blocked."

  Never? With one proxy site working they had better hope so.

• Compatibility – "Most proxies aren’t fully functional with Myspace, Youtube, and other websites. We make sure that we are fully compatible with all websites."

  No. I found that ProxyKey is not compatible with YouTube. No web-based proxy can or should claim to be “fully compatible with all websites” as it is impossible.

• Restrictions – "Public proxies put on some annoying restrictions. We however don’t have any restrictions on file size limit, allow the FTP protocol, etc."

  No. Glype does not support the FTP protocol. Claims of “no restrictions” and having an “unlimited file size limit” do not stand up considering that ProxyKey has finite resources for its proxies.

ProxyKey fails to deliver on its promises and provides a user experience comparable with any free proxy but at a premium price. I recommend users purchase from established proxy services instead.

TPB Rating:
Design: 4
Content: 1
Speed: 4
Special Features: 1
Overall: 2 out of 10