Setup guides, comparisons of types and protocols, typical mistakes explained. Written by the engineers who run ProxyFarm's farms.
Android can work with a proxy without third-party apps, but only over HTTP and only for some applications. We cover setup through Wi-Fi and APN, the Drony and ProxyDroid apps for SOCKS5, and ways to confirm that traffic really goes through the proxy.
Proxy rotation is an automatic or manual change of the IP address. We break down three mechanisms, by timer, by link and per request, explain sticky sessions and show which tasks require rotation and which it ruins.
Six checks worth running on any proxy before trusting it with an account or a scraper: does the port respond, what the site sees, does the geo match, is the IP in Spamhaus or Firehol, what p0f shows and what the real speed is.
Step-by-step SOCKS5 and MTProto setup in Telegram on Android, iOS, Windows and macOS: where the menus are, how to build a tg://socks link for your team and why a proxy gets stuck on "Connecting".
IPv6 proxies cost six times less than IPv4 but only work where the site supports the newer protocol. We go through which platforms open over IPv6, where the savings are real and when they turn into a blocked subnet.
Three proxy types, residential, mobile and datacenter, differ in IP source, pricing model and how platforms treat them. A full comparison table and the scenarios where each type wins.
Which proxies you need for Avito, Russia's largest classifieds site: why the platform blocks datacenter IPs, how mobile beats IPv4, how many accounts one address can carry and how not to lose them in the first week.
An HTTP proxy only understands web traffic; SOCKS5 passes any TCP or UDP packet. We compare the protocols side by side and show which one to set in a browser, Telegram, BAS and games.
Step-by-step diagnosis for when a proxy is not working: from checking the credential format and IP whitelist to decoding error codes 407, 403 and 502. No busywork, only the steps that actually find the cause.
A look inside mobile proxies: why platforms trust carrier IP addresses, how rotation works and in which tasks paying extra for a mobile channel makes no sense.
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