How to use a proxy
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007This is a tutorial on how to use a proxy, because we received some questions about that.
Let’s take for example the following proxy from the list of proxies provided by us earlyer this month.
62.7.244.105:80 62.7.244.103 HTTP anon 30266 ms
The first part, 62.7.244.105:80 it’s the part we’ll need. What follows means what Ip will we have after we start using the proxy, HTTP it’s the type of proxy, anon means it’s anonymous (your real IP won’t be visible) and 30266 ms it’s the ping of the proxy. I know some of the terms may not be familiar but you don’t need to understand them. Just remember, the lowest the ping is, the better the proxy is, and you should mainly use anonymous proxies.
Now let’s look at the first part, 62.7.244.105:80. The part before the colon it’s the proxy IP and the part after the colon it’s the port used by the proxy. Now depending on your browser, use the following instructions.
How to use a proxy with Internet Explorer 6.0
Open an Internet Explorer window, go to Tools menu, then to Internet Options. Choose the Connections Tab, then press the button labeled “LAN Settings …”. In the new dialog box check the “Use a proxy server …” option, and put the Ip of the proxy (that is 62.7.244.105 in our case) in the Address textbox and the port of the proxy (80 in our case) in the Port textbox. Press Ok, then Ok and you’re done. Check your new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.
How to use a proxy with Internet Explorer 6.0
How to use a proxy with Internet Explorer 6.0
How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 1.x
This is the tutorial for all Mozilla Firefox versions lower than 2.0.
First of all, open a new instance of Mozilla Firefox. Go to Tools menu, choose Options, then press the button labeled “Connection Settings…”. In the newly opened dialog select the option “Manual proxy configuration”, then put in the textbox HTTP Proxy the IP of the proxy (62.7.244.105 in our case) and in the Port textbox, the port of the proxy (80 here). Check the “Use this proxy server for all protocols” option, press Ok and then Ok again and that’s it. Check the new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.
How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 1.x
How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 1.x
How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 2.x
This is the tutorial for all Mozilla Firefox versions newer (but including) 2.0.
Open a new instance of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Go to Tools menu, choose Options. On the newly opened dialog box choose Advance from the top row, and then Network from the lower
tabs, and then the “Settings…” button. In the next dialog select the option “Manual proxy configuration”, then put in the textbox HTTP Proxy the IP of the proxy (62.7.244.105 in our case) and in the Port textbox, the port of the proxy (80 here). Check the “Use this proxy server for all protocols” option, press Ok and then Ok again and that’s it. Check the new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.
How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 2.x
How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 2.x
How to use a proxy with Opera 9.0
Open a new instance of Opera 9.0, go to Tools menu and choose “Preferences…”, or after you open Opera, just press Ctrl+F12. In the new dialog box choose Advanced from the top tabs, and then Network from the left sidebar. Press on the “Proxy Servers” button, and complete the left side textboxes in the newly opened dialog box with the Ip of the proxy (62.7.244.105 in this case) and the port textboxes with the port (that’s 80), just like in the pictures. Press Ok, then Ok again and test the new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.
How to use a proxy with Opera 9.0
How to use a proxy with Opera 9.0
Now just get your hands on a list of proxies and surf the net anonymously.