How to Change Your IP Address With a Proxy

You change your IP with a proxy in 4 steps: get a proxy address, pick the location, enter the proxy in the app, and check the IP the website sees. The proxy opens the connection to the website from its own IP, so the site never sees yours (MDN: Proxy servers and tunneling).

1. Get a proxy address and credentials. A proxy is a host and a port, plus a username and password or your own IP on the provider's allowlist. With ProxyField, the gateway is gate.proxyfield.io:7000 with a username and password; with the IP allowlist, you connect to the port you set up in the dashboard instead. Your credentials and allowlist settings are in your account once the payment is confirmed.
2. Choose where the new IP should be. With ProxyField, the location goes into the username: <login>-country-us-city-new_york asks for an IP in New York. You can target a country, a region (state) or a city.
3. Enter the proxy in the app that needs the new IP. That is your browser or system proxy settings, or the proxy option of your script or tool. Only the traffic of that app changes IP; other apps keep yours. Where the settings live on each system: proxy settings.
   • On Windows 10 and 11 (Microsoft's steps): Settings > Network & internet > Proxy; under Manual proxy setup, next to Use a proxy server, select Set up; turn on Use a proxy server, enter gate.proxyfield.io in Proxy IP address and 7000 in Port, and select Save. The exceptions box takes sites that should skip the proxy, separated by semicolons, and "Don't use the proxy server for local (intranet) addresses" keeps your home network direct.
   • The Windows form has no username or password field, so it can't hold a username with the location in it. Edge and Chrome ask for the username and password on the first page that goes through the proxy; enter <login>-country-us-city-new_york there. Or add your IP to the allowlist in your account and enter the port you set up in the dashboard in Port instead of 7000; the gateway then accepts your PC without a password, and with the allowlist, the product, location and session are set per port in the dashboard, not in the username. Every click and both options: Windows proxy setup.
4. Check the IP the website sees, first without the proxy and then through it:

# the IP your internet provider gave you
curl https://api.ipify.org

# the IP a website sees through the proxy
curl -x gate.proxyfield.io:7000 -U "<login>-country-us-city-new_york:<password>" https://api.ipify.org

The second answer should be a US residential IP, not yours. The same check in Python with Requests, three requests in a row:

import requests

proxy = "http://<login>-country-us-city-new_york:<password>@gate.proxyfield.io:7000"
proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy}

for _ in range(3):
    ip = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies=proxies, timeout=30).text
    print(ip)

With per-request rotation, the gateway gives each request a new IP, so the three lines show three different addresses. More setups: Python Requests, cURL, and phones in the iPhone and Android guides.

A rotating proxy works in one of two modes: it changes the IP on every request, or it keeps one IP for a set time, called a sticky session.

ProxyField lets you choose the mode: per-request rotation, or a sticky session of 30 s to 36 h. Region, session and session time go in the same username: -region-<region>, -session-<id> and -ttl-<seconds> (30 to 129,600 seconds, 20 minutes by default), as in <login>-country-us-region-new_york-city-new_york-session-he9f2qga-ttl-600; every part after the login is optional. ProxyField has unlimited concurrent threads, so you can run many rotating requests and many sticky sessions at the same time from one account. How the two modes compare in practice: sticky sessions and rotation compared; how to set rotation up in common tools: setting up each proxy type.

When you need the same IP for weeks, a rotating pool is the wrong tool. A dedicated ISP proxy (static residential) costs from $2.29 per IP for a 30-day term, and a dedicated datacenter IPv4 $1.39; you renew them yourself in the dashboard, and nothing renews automatically.

Use a proxy or a VPN located in that country: the websites you visit then see an IP from there. The difference is precision and scale. A VPN gives one IP at a time from its list of server locations; a proxy can give each app, or each request, an IP in the country, region or city you choose.

With ProxyField residential proxies you choose:

• the country: 195+ countries, such as the United States (61.2M+ residential IPs), the United Kingdom (16.6M+) and Germany (20.2M+);
• the region: all 50 US states;
• the city: 21,000+ cities across the pool.

The full list is on the proxy locations page, with the United States on its own page; the targeting options are in location targeting. For an IP on a phone network rather than a home connection, mobile proxies run on 5G, 4G and LTE carrier networks, with 10.2M+ mobile IPs.

Choosing the country picks where the IP is registered; it does not guarantee that every site agrees. Websites place an IP on the map with geolocation databases, and Cloudflare, whose network sits in front of many sites, calls IP geolocation "an estimate, not an exact science" and warns that its results may not align with other providers' (Cloudflare: IP geolocation). Databases most often disagree at the city level. Sites also read other signals than the IP: your device's GPS or location permission, cookies, the account you sign in with, its delivery address, your browser language and time zone, and the country of your payment card. Check the location the target site itself shows before you rely on it.

Without a proxy you have five options, and each changes one IP for your whole connection, device or browser; the last row adds the proxy for comparison:

If you want a new IP because a website blocked yours, read why sites block an IP first: a new IP does not help if the block was triggered by what the requests did.

Free proxies and free VPN apps cost you something else. The operator of a free proxy runs the server your traffic passes through, so it can see anything you send unencrypted and can change the pages it returns. Some free VPN, proxy and streaming apps go further and route other people's traffic through your connection: the FBI warned about apps and devices that enroll your connection in a residential proxy network in a 2026 alert (FBI: residential proxy networks). Read what an app does with your connection before you install it, and see are free proxies safe.

Most home and mobile connections have dynamic IPs: the ISP assigns the address for a lease period, and it may hand out a different one when the lease runs out, after an outage, or when the router restarts after an update. There is no fixed interval. Some home lines keep one IP for months; others change it after every reconnect.

On mobile data, your public IP belongs to the carrier and can change whenever the phone reconnects to the network. A static IP, usually a business or paid option, does not change at all.

Proxy IPs follow the mode you choose: a rotating proxy changes the IP by design, and a sticky session changes it when the session time ends. If a sticky IP changes earlier than you expect, the session time you chose is the first thing to check.

A new IP changes one signal that websites use; the others stay with you:

• Logins. If you sign in, the site knows the account, whatever the IP.
• Cookies. Cookies from earlier visits link the old IP to the new one.
• Browser fingerprint. Screen size, fonts, time zone, language and graphics details can recognize the same browser on a new IP: see what a browser fingerprint is made of.
• Leaks around the proxy. WebRTC in the browser can reveal your real IP to a page. What a proxy hides and what still leaks: does a proxy hide your IP.

Changing your IP is an ordinary technical step, used for scraping public data, checking prices, search results and ads by region, and testing sites from other locations. It does not change what a site's terms or the law allow, and ProxyField's acceptable use policy forbids fraud, fake accounts and attacks through the network.

Need a new IP per request, or one city's IP for hours? ProxyField residential proxies: 412M+ IPs in 195+ countries, per-request rotation or sticky sessions from 30 s to 36 h, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, from $1.95/GB with no subscription. Start with the Easy Trial: 1 GB for $2.95; traffic never expires. Prices for every volume: pricing.