The username carries your choices. This page explains what each part does. The dashboard's Advanced section builds these usernames for you, so copy lines from there rather than typing them: a misspelt word is ignored without an error.
The username format
The username is your account name followed by your choices, joined by hyphens: the network, the country, then any session settings. The password is always your key.
ACCOUNT-peer-us-iptype-residential| Part | Meaning |
|---|---|
ACCOUNT | Your account name, shown in the dashboard's connection details. |
peer | The residential network. mbl is the mobile network (see below). |
us | The two-letter country code. |
iptype-residential | Asks for addresses classed as residential. |
Choose a country
Change the country code: ACCOUNT-peer-de-iptype-residential, ACCOUNT-peer-gb-iptype-residential. A pack is not tied to a country, and the same GB work in every country the network has. The dashboard lists the countries available now. Availability changes with the network, and a filter that matches nothing is refused rather than widened.
Rotating sessions
Without a session ID, each new connection is routed again and can leave from a different IP. This is the username the dashboard gives you first, and it suits requests that do not depend on each other.
Sticky sessions
Add a session ID to keep one binding across connections:
ACCOUNT-peer-us-iptype-residential-sid-task1-rot-sticky-ttl-3600| Part | Meaning |
|---|---|
sid-task1 | The session ID: lowercase letters, digits and underscores, up to 64 characters. Reuse it to return to the same binding. |
rot-sticky | Sticky rotation: prefer the same IP for the whole session. |
ttl-3600 | How long the binding is kept, in seconds. |
Instead of rot-sticky, a timed rotation moves the session to a new IP after a set time: rot-auto5, rot-auto10, rot-auto20, rot-auto60 for 5, 10, 20 or 60 minutes. It is checked on the next connection after the interval. Open connections are not cut, and a different IP is not guaranteed.
How long a sticky session lasts
The dashboard offers five lifetimes for the binding: 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, 7 days and 30 days. That is how long the session is remembered. It is not a promise that one IP or one connection lasts that long: a network change can still change the IP.
Keep one session for the steps of one task on one site, such as a login. For many sites, use a separate session for each. After a 502 or a dropped connection, try again with a new session ID, because the same session returns to the same device.
Mobile per GB
Dedicated mobile is one device rented by the day, with no traffic limit. Mobile per GB uses the same prepaid GB on a shared pool of carrier modems. Pick Mobile as the network in the dashboard, and the username names the mobile network instead:
ACCOUNT-mbl-usThe mobile network takes no iptype setting, and it has fewer countries than the residential network.