GETTING STARTED with your Proxies
So you have received your welcome email notifications and your proxies are online, where to go next?
Here are the steps you may want, not necessarily need, to go trough:
Proxy Q & A
How To Setup Your Proxy in Windows 11
- Step 1. Click on the Windows button and select the Settings icon.
- Step 2. In Windows Settings, click Network & internet, select Proxy on the right pane of your screen.
- Step 3. To setup a manual proxy, select Manual proxy setup. Then click on the Set-up button to enter the proxy details.
- Step 4. A pop-up window will now appear on your screen, toggle the button to turn on the manual proxy server in Windows 11. In the Address field, type the IP address of the proxy server. In the Port field, type your proxy’s port.
- Step 5. When you are all set, click Save and close the Settings window.
How to Set up a Proxy in Chrome on Windows 11
Chrome uses your Windows proxy by default. To update your proxy settings inside Google Chrome, follow these steps:
- Click the Chrome Menu in the browser toolbar.
- Click Settings.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the display. Click on Advanced.
- In the System section, click Open your computer’s proxy settings.
How to Set Up a Proxy in Edge on Windows 11
Microsoft Edge will use your proxy settings in Windows 11. The steps below show how to configure a proxy from inside Microsoft Edge:
- In Microsoft Edge, click the Menu button from the top-right corner, and select Settings.
- Scroll down and click the System.
- Click the Open your computer’s proxy settings button.
How to Set Up a Proxy in Firefox on Windows 11
Unlike other web browsers, Firefox does not use your system’s proxy settings by default. You must modify your proxy settings from inside Firefox:
- Open the Firefox menu and select Settings.
- In the General panel, go to the Network Settings section.
- Next, click Settings to open the Connection Settings window
- In the Connection Settings, select, Auto-detect proxy configuration for this network. When prompted, enter the proxy address.
- You can also select Use system proxy settings. By choosing that option, Firefox uses the proxy settings of your Windows 11 system.
- Click OK to save your settings.
Proxy Setting in Google Chrome on Mac
Go step-by-step through following instructions in order to setup a proxy in Google Chrome on Mac.
Proxy Setting in Chromebook
You can set a proxy in Chromebook’s network connection settings.
Proxy Settings for 3G/4G Android
You can configure your Android Device to use proxies with a 4g network connection, in order to do that you need to:
How To Setup Your Proxy in Windows 10
Middle of summer brought us the release to the wide public of Windows 10, the newest iteration of Microsoft's operating system. While for many it is not a big leap from the the previous version, from our point of view it is still better than Windows 8.1 (and miles away from Windows 8)
Proxy Settings in Firefox (FF)
To setup your proxy in Firefox you need to follow these steps
- Right click on the shortcut in start menu and select Mozilla Firefox Options.
- Click on the Advanced category.
- Click on Network tab.
- Click Settings under Connection.
- Check Manual proxy configuration.
- Enter proxy server IP address and port number. Your proxies were delivered as PROXY_IP:PORT_NUMBER like for example 1.2.3.4:0000 so in this example 1.2.3.4 would be the IP and 0000 would be the port number
- check the box that says Use this proxy server for all protocols.
- Click OK twice and browse to www.whatismyipaddress.com or www.iplocation.net to check that it shows the IP of your proxy as being your own
You can check our video tutorials on Firefox Proxy Settings that our users submitted in our Double Your Proxies program in our Firefox video tutorials section.
All our available video tutorials are posted on our youtube channel
Setting Proxies in Internet Explorer (IE)
Internet Explorer uses your computer's system proxy settings to connect to the network. Changing these settings will affect Internet Explorer as well as Google Chrome or other programs that connect to the Internet. In order to use a proxy in Internet Explorer you will need to:
How to set proxy in Safari
How to set your proxy in safari:
Proxy Setting in Google Chrome
Google Chrome uses your computer's system proxy settings to connect to the network. Changing these settings will affect Google Chrome as well as Internet Explorer or other programs that connect to the Internet. In order to use a proxy in Internet Explorer you will need to:
Using proxies on IPhone/IPad
iPad/IPhone allow you to set specific network settings on per WiFi SSID basis. This allows you make proxy settings on each WiFi and it is convenient if you move the device between locations, since each location will have a unique WiFi SSID.
Using proxies in PHP
Our proxies are suited for use in PHP scripts with curl, a few php code snippets are listed below. Your proxies are delivered as PROXY_IP:PORT_NUMBER like for example 1.2.3.4:0000 so in these examples 1.2.3.4 would be the IP and 0000 would be the port number
Using proxies on Android WIFI
You can configure your Android Device to use proxies with a particular network connection, in order to do that you need to:
Using proxies on playstation PS3
PS3 does not handle http proxy authentication meaning you have no means of entering a username/password to be used with your proxy, in this case you have only one option while using BestProxyAndVPN.com proxies - you need to use IP authentication.