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How does IP rotation work?

A Rotating session gives you a new IP on every request. How to turn it on, why your location stays fixed, and when to use it.

Written by Cornel

A Rotating session gives you a new IP on every request. There is no session to keep and nothing to reset.

Rotating is one of three session types for Residential and Mobile. ISP proxies do not rotate.

Turning it on

Under Advanced settings, set Session type to Rotating.

The dashboard removes the session ID from your username. That absence is what makes it rotate:

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Rotating USERNAME-country-us-filter-medium

Your location stays fixed

Rotation changes the IP, not the targeting. Every new IP comes from the location and filter you selected.

With this username, every request goes out from a different Phoenix IP:

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Narrow targeting means a small pool. A country rotates across many IPs. A city plus a carrier plus a filter may leave only a handful, and you will see the same ones again.

Getting a new IP without switching to Rotating

On a Sticky session, two options:

Option

How

Change the session ID

Edit any character of the -sid- value. Fastest method.

Generate a new proxy string

Each one comes with its own session ID

Both keep your location and filter. Only the IP changes.

How many can I run at once?

No limit. Set Proxies quantity in the Proxy generator to produce several strings at a time.

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