Deciding to set up a proxy server has to be done if you don’t want to be held back by limitations. In simple terms, proxy usually means acting as a substitute or an agent. In case of telecommunication, it is used for a device or program empowered to act for another. In computing a proxy server is simply an informational middleman, if you will; it handles exchanges between the requester and the ultimate server. The requester is known as the client, and has to go through the proxy in order to get anything. The proxy server analyzes the request according to its filtering rules. The most common example of filtering is by IP address or protocol.
When you want to set up a proxy server, a wide variety of choices exist out there. You might start by checking out one of the most popular proxys on the market, a piece of software called WinProxy. People really like it because everything’s absolutely invisible to the requester, with nothing to install on the client computer. Another reason is NAT, or Network Address Translation, since WinProxy is what’s known as a transparent proxy. That means that the client side doesn’t even know it’s dealing with a proxy server in the first place. Other than administrative stuff like caching and security, the usual complement of protocols are available.
The WinProxy Server is easy to install and configure. There’s really no better way to set up a proxy server. First off, TCP/IP needs to be set up on everything that will be handled by WinProxy. When all that’s been done, you can go on to WinProxy itself. You can purchase this the traditional way in a store or through a simple download. Now once you fire up WinProxy for the first time, you should use the included setup wizard for ease and peace of mind. Be sure to have your product key handy, as that’s going to be the very first input required of you. Further screens will ascertain the kind of connection you have to access the internet, dial-up or broadband. Under certain rare circumstances you may have to denote such information yourself. Next,it will ask to enter the username and password of the Internet connection. Just leave everything else to the program to handle. It assigns a unique address automatically,to each device on the LAN as internal addresses. The IP address that the Internet Service Provider has assigned to the modem or router becomes the external address. This external address is what someone else will see when his system requests something from yours. By now you would be practically at the end of setup, ready to take on the worldwide web anonymously through your proxy server, courtesy WinProxy.