Setup Proxy Server In Your Browser [How To Tutorial]

Proxy server, which is an intermediate stop makes by your browser while requesting the webpage and other web content from the internet. There are many necessary reasons are present to setup a proxy sever and one of them is to encrypt your network traffic.

Most of the users have the full knowledge about how to setup proxy server in their browsers, but rest of them have nothing knowledge about the proxy server. So today we are presenting a full guide how to setup a proxy server in your browser.

• Good for Knowledge : What is a Proxy Server | Proxy Server Configuration

How to setup a proxy in your Internet Explorer with a LAN, DSL or cable connection

1. Firstly run your Internet Explorer.
2. Now click on the “Tool” from the menu bar, and then select the “internet option.”
3. Now click on the “connection tab.”
4. Click on the “LAN-Setup” button which is present in the bottom. There you see a proxy server, now tick the “use a proxy server for your LAN.”
5. Now type proxy in the bigger textbox and port in the port box. In the end click on the “okay” button.
6. Now go to www.whatismyproxyip.com to see your proxy.

It is not necessary to restart your Internet Explorer.

How to setup a proxy server in your internet explorer with Dial-up modem

1. Firstly run your Internet Explorer.
2. Now click on the “Tool” from the menu bar, and then select the “internet option.”
3. Click on the “connection tab.”
4. Now in the Dial-up connections select the connection which you are using by clicking on it.
5. After that click on the “setting” with in the dial-up connection.
6. In the proxy server field, tick the “use a proxy server for this connection.” Now type proxy’s IP in the address box and port in the port box.
7. In the end click on the “okay” button.

In the Dial-up modem it is necessary to restart your Internet Explorer.

How to setup a proxy server in the Opera

1. Firstly run your opera.
2. Now click on the “files” and then “preferences” after that on “network.”
3. Now click on the “proxy server” button and then tick the “HTTP” and fill the proxy IP in the text bar and the port in the port box.
4. In the end click on the okay button.

Also go to www.whatismyproxyip.com to see your proxy.

How to setup a proxy server in your Firefox

1. Run the Firefox.
2. Now click on the “Tool” from the menu bar and then click on “option menu” item.
3. Click on the “general icon” button.
4. Now click on the manually “configure proxy” radio button and enter the proxy address and port in the HTTP proxy area.
5. In the end click on the “okay” button.