Windows proxy setup

Protocols

HTTP proxy (HTTPS sites go through it). No SOCKS5 in Settings

Login and password

No fields in Windows: the browser asks in a sign-in window

UDP

No: the setting carries web traffic over TCP only

Where the setting is

Settings → Network & internet → Proxy

Works with

Residential and mobile proxies

Before you start

• Windows 11 or 10. The setting covers Wi-Fi and Ethernet; a VPN connection has its own proxy settings.
• Your proxy login and password from the Residential or Mobile page of the dashboard, and traffic on that product.
• Optional: test gate.aeonproxy.com:7000:LOGIN:PASSWORD in the proxy tester first.

Add the proxy

1. Open Settings (Windows key + I) and go to Network & internet → Proxy.
2. Under Manual proxy setup, next to Use a proxy server, select Set up.
3. In Edit proxy server, turn on Use a proxy server.
4. In Proxy IP address type gate.aeonproxy.com (a host name is fine) and in Port type 7000.
5. Tick Don't use the proxy server for local (intranet) addresses, so your router and printers stay direct, and select Save.
6. Open Edge or Chrome and load any page. When the browser asks for the proxy's username and password, enter your login (with keys, see below) and password.

If your Windows 10 shows no Set up button, the switch and the address and port boxes are on the Proxy page itself. Fill them in the same way and select Save.

Which apps use it

• Edge, Chrome and other Chromium browsers follow it and ask for the login in their own sign-in window.
• Firefox follows it at its default, Use system proxy settings, and asks for the login. For a Firefox-only proxy, see Firefox.
• Other desktop apps differ: some follow the setting but cannot send a login and show a connection error, many ignore it.
• curl and git read the HTTPS_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY variables instead, with the login in the URL. In PowerShell, $env:HTTPS_PROXY = "http://LOGIN:[email protected]:7000" sets one for that window (cURL and wget). Python and pip read the variables too; without them they take the Windows setting, which has no login, and fail with 407.
• UDP traffic (games, voice and video calls) never goes through this setting.
• Telegram has its own proxy setting: Telegram.

Check the proxy

In the browser that asked for the login, open the IP checker. It should show the exit IP and the targeted country, not your own. A WebRTC leak there means sites can see your real address over UDP: see WebRTC leaks.

Rotating or sticky

Use a sticky login here. A browser opens many connections for one page, and with a rotating login each leaves from a different IP, so sites you are signed in to may log you out. Type a login like this in the sign-in window:

LOGIN-cc-us-sid-pc01-ttl-60

The exit stays the same for up to 60 minutes, then the same login gets a new IP in the same country. Edge and Chrome keep the login you typed until they close: for a new IP sooner, quit the browser completely and sign in with another key, such as -sid-pc02.

If it does not work