what is residential ip pool?
the set of real consumer addresses a provider can route you through, and the thing you are actually buying with residential bandwidth.
pools are assembled from devices whose owners agreed to share their connection, usually through an sdk bundled into a free app or a paid client that rewards them. the headline size, the 100m+ style number, is a count of unique addresses seen over a month, not what is online right now. concurrent availability is much smaller and swings by hour and by country. what matters more than the total: how many distinct asns and subnets it spans, which countries have genuine depth rather than a dozen devices, how heavily other customers are using the same exits, and how long a given address stays usable before it degrades. that is why the same word residential covers everything from $0.30 to $1.95 a gigabyte. test a pool the way you intend to use it, against your real targets and your real geography, before committing volume. myx sells two: residential across 166 countries and a cheaper lite pool across 202.