
The difference between the two is that the program comes with an encrypted protocol that is slightly simpler to use. Therefore, the tool makes sure that nobody outside your internal network – including your Internet Service Provider or the LAN administrator – can actually view your traffic. Similarly to the Socks5 proxy protocol, the utility enabled you to establish a TCP connection to a random IP address and provides you with a safe method to submit UDP packets. Shadowsocks is a secure socks5 proxy that designed to provide a framework for client-server applications in both the TCP and UDP domains to conveniently and securely use the services of a network firewall. However, along with the emergence of more advanced application layer protocols, there also comes the need to provide a more efficient framework that is capable of traversing safely and transparently via a firewall. You can then connect using the power button as normal.Generally speaking, the role of network firewalls is to act as an application-layer gateway between internal network structures while protecting them from the exterior. This is intended to minimize the additional latency added by the Shadowsocks hopĪfter the Shadowsocks Proxy is selected, you will see the change on the application dashboard indicating you are using Shadowsocks. Otherwise, use the Shadowsocks location closest to you based on the lowest latency. If the chosen VPN location supports Shadowsocks, use that location. When "Auto" is selected, the following strategy is used: *Note:* Shadowsocks isn't provided by all PIA locations - only locations that provide Once clicked, a new menu will appear giving you the available server locations. Users can change the server location by clicking on the Configure button.

Once selected the server selection will be set to automatic by default. Here you will see the option for Shadowsocks. Once in the Settings navigate to the Proxy tab. Similar to the SOCKS5 proxy, users can access this feature by clicking the three dots in the upper right-hand corner of the application to open the application's Settings. This has been added to our most recent release of desktop version 1.7. The second Proxy connection that we provide our users is our Shadowsocks connection. If you receive any error messages or are unable to connect, please contact the PIA Customer Support team here for further assistance.
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Then fill out the username and password using your “x” credentials you generated in the CCP as covered in the above section. Once everything is filled out, press OK, and then connect to a server. (`ping` the hostname to receive an IP address for the above domain address) Server IP Address: Enter in the IP address for the domain Fill out the following text boxes as follows: Within this tab, you will see the option to select the SOCKS5 Proxy option. This proxy was added on our v1.4.0 release, this adds an additional "hop" between the user and the VPN server.Īs mentioned above, to access this connection method select the three dots in the upper right corner of the application to open the settings menu navigate to the Proxy tab.

The first Proxy that we provided our users the option to connect directly through our application is our SOCKS5 Proxy.

Once in the Settings navigate to the Proxy tab, from there you will have the option to connect to our SOCKS5 Proxy or our Shadowsocks connection.

To access proxy settings within the application, click the three dots in the upper right-hand corner of the application to open the application's Settings.
