Private Internet Access Proxy Now Available (Now Open)

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  • edited August 2013
    I got this set up and it works fine with chrome and firefox via proxifier; however, I'm trying to proxy the launcher (just the launcher, not the main game executable), and it gives me a message saying "Could not connect through proxy proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com:1080 - Proxy server cannot establish a connection with the target - connection not allowed by ruleset".

    The launcher normally can successfully use whatever proxy settings is set by the system, but since I only want to proxy this and not the rest of the system, it seems a bit troublesome. Does anyone have any idea of what I should be looking at?
  • I got this set up and it works fine with chrome and firefox via proxifier; however, I'm trying to proxy the launcher (just the launcher, not the main game executable), and it gives me a message saying "Could not connect through proxy proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com:1080 - Proxy server cannot establish a connection with the target - connection not allowed by ruleset".

    The launcher normally can successfully use whatever proxy settings is set by the system, but since I only want to proxy this and not the rest of the system, it seems a bit troublesome. Does anyone have any idea of what I should be looking at?
    Obtain new username/ password from client support page. Log into client support page and generate a new id/ pass.
  • Is there some nuance to that that I'm not aware of? I generated a id/pass combo from the client support page to get chrome/firefox to work; if I add a rule to tunnel the game launcher only the launcher fails with that error.
  • The proxy might indeed be blocking something that the launcher tries to do. If you don't know what, you could ask developer support or try to analyze the proxy requests yourself with something like wireshark.
  • Hi, I've been using the proxy with uTorrent for a long time, but recently I've had some problems.

    For many torrents, I could not get any connections at all, and I would be stuck at 'Connecting to peers'.

    After a bit of tweaking, I found out that this was caused by the option 'Disable connections unsupported by the proxy'.

    Anyone know what's up with that?
    Thank you
  • Same here, no traffic at all with the PIA proxy in place.
  • no connections, no traffic whatsoever. also, obviously: http://checkmytorrentip.com/ cannot seem to find the generated tracking torrent.
  • just joined today!

    are you guys using your default logins? i am reading on some of the threads that you now have to use the specific PIA Proxy generated username and password (not your general username/passwpord that you use with the client).

    i am still trying to figure out where to get this "generated" username and password.
  • Nice work. But, does it work on iOS?
  • just joined today!

    are you guys using your default logins? i am reading on some of the threads that you now have to use the specific PIA Proxy generated username and password (not your general username/passwpord that you use with the client).

    i am still trying to figure out where to get this "generated" username and password.
    https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/
  • Nice work. But, does it work on iOS?
    if there is an app which supports socks 5 proxy with authentication then it should work
  • thank you!
  • edited September 2013
    Arora is another Browser that supports Socks 5A

    http://code.google.com/p/arora/

    I've install and test successfully.  IP is now coming from nltelcom.com

  • edited September 2013
    I would very much like the option of using SSH to access the proxy. Allowing passwords and other sensitive information to be sent in the clear is not something I am willing to do. 

    There are many free programs available to make the connection relatively easy. Putty and Bitvise Tunnelier are two free programs. ProxyCap is inexpensive and works very well also. I have used SSH tunneling to a proxy with services such as SecureTunnel and find that being able to force a specific application to use the proxy while keeping the default Internet connection going through my ISP (or another VPN) is the best of both worlds.

    Please implement this along with a US proxy  server and you will have an unbeatable combination.

    Thanks,
    John

    Have you been able to setup Bitvise Tunnelier ? If so, could you post your settings ?

    Because I always have "Server disconnected without sending a disconnect message".
  • Does the login/password for the proxy have an expiration date? I can generate a new login/password combination and configure it into the browser, but after a week (more or less) the browser asks me again to authenticate on the proxy.

    The old login/password do not work anymore and I have to generate a new one, after which the browser loads pages successfully.

    I'm ok if the login/password for the proxy need to be renewed often, but I would like to know if others have the same issue or if it's just me.

  • This is not working for me.  When I enable the proxy I get no connection at all in uTorrent.  If I disable the proxy and enable the VPN then I can connect fine.
  • @quicksilver03: You're the first person on this forum to mention expiration of the credentials. Please open a support ticket to get an official response.
  • sorry to ask here, but its the only place.

    why do i NOT have permission to start a discussion?

    Also, i tried clicking your name "VPN" to see if i could private message you this question, but it says i do not have permission to do that either?
  • Please don't message me directly unless I ask you to.
    That said, you can send messages from your own message inbox, which should be a button in the upper right corner on these pages, or can be reached via this link:
    https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/index.php?p=/messages/all

    As far as I know all registered users should be able to start a new discussion.

  • Hi, noob question but i cant get the proxy to work in xbmc, what username and password is it i'm using?  is it the one i generated for pptp etc ?
  • Yes, the credentials for PPtP, L2TP and the proxy are identical and must be generate from the user account pages. The username always starts with an "x".

    Does XBMC show an error message?
  • Hey,

    Through that big data skandal I started thinking about my earlier Internet habits, when I used to watch stuff that is only for adults (porn ;) ) . Now I am not ashamed or something but since I am a little paranoid I started to think. One thought of mine was that if someday a person becomes a political figure, the Nsa or any other group might want to find out something about that person. Taaadaaa today I came across that case about the NSA spying on sexual-online activities of "potencial" terrorists with the intend to be able to discredit them with that kind of data. Soooo my question is
    Can a normal persons Internet history (including Google search entryies, facebook, skype, email logins etc, website visits...) be searched through, months and years afterwards and for that.
  • edited December 2013
    Hi,

    I am having trouble using the proxy on a Mac OS X 10.9.1.

    I used the following data:
    proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com (also tried with IP)
    port: 1080
    user: x...... (generated, not the account name)
    password: ........ (generated)

    Entered all of this into system settings --> network --> wifi options --> proxies --> SOCKS proxy.

    Firewall is switched off.

    My browser only shows the following error after this, no internet connection is possible:
    ERR_SOCKS_CONNECTION_FAILED
  • Hi,

    can you please confirm that the proxy is still working? I can't connect either. I am using proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com, port 1080 and my generated username/password. It works fine with other proxies, but not this one.

    Thanks in advance for a short reply.
  • Proxy is up and running properly at this time, is your app throwing a particular error we could take a look at?
  • The proxy isn't working with Azureus:

    Testing SOCKS connection to proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com port:1080.

    Connect failed, Unknown host proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com port

    I'm using the correct username and password.

    Why isn't this working?
  • For those of you wanting just proxy IP etc. Without VPN JonDo is a good add-on to Firefox.
  • I should say that I don't recommend anything but a vpn, particularly PIA's
  • I can't seem to get the Socks5 proxy to work with my torrent client. 
    I have entered the correct username and password. The correct address and port number. What am I doing wrong, I'm connected to the internet but the torrent never connects to any peers or seeders.  
    I'm using a Mac and safari browser. 
  • Don't use a proxy server. Just setup the client on your Mac and use Vuze to configure the tun (likely tun0)
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