How to configure Skype through a proxy

Skype is becoming increasingly popular, it can be used both for correspondence and for calls and video calls. It often happens that access to the Internet on your PC through the proxy server, in this case, to use Skype you will need to configure additional options.

You will need

• - desktop computer/notebook/netbook
• - Skype

Instruction

1. First and foremost, you need to run Skype. To do this, click start, then click on "All programs" to open the menu and click once on Skype. Also if you have a shortcut of Skype on the desktop or in the quick launch menu, you can launch Skype by clicking on this shortcut.
2. Enter the username and password to log into the program.
3. In the top menu select "Tools", then "Settings", then "Advanced" tab and section "Connection".
4. By default, this section is "Automatic discovery of proxy serverand" to specify the address and port of the proxy serverand select the appropriate type of proxy serverand in the drop-down list.
5. If your proxy server uses authorization, check the "Enable authorization proxy server isa" and enter the username and password. Click "Save".
6. In order for these changes to take effect, you must restart the Skype. To do this, close the program and make sure it is not running on the computer. Then re-start Skype as described in the first paragraph of this instruction.