PS5 Proxy Server: What It Does and How to Set It Up

Sony lists Proxy among the PS5's advanced network settings, next to IP address, DHCP Host Name, DNS and MTU, and suggests asking your ISP or network administrator if those settings are unfamiliar. When it is on, the console sends its web requests, the ones that travel over HTTP and HTTPS, through the server you name instead of straight to the internet.

It leaves alone the traffic most players care about. Online matches and party chat use UDP and keep going direct, so a proxy will not lower your ping or change your NAT type. It does not change your PlayStation Store either: the store follows your account's country or region, which Sony does not let you change once the account exists.

Should you use one? On an ordinary home connection, no: leave it on Don't Use. Turn it on when the network you are on requires a proxy, as some schools, offices and hotels do, or when you run one yourself for a clear reason, such as filtering or logging the console's web traffic or keeping it on one fixed IP.

Evomi authenticates with a username and password, and the PS5 has no way to send them. The answer is a small forwarding proxy on a computer or home server on the same network: the PS5 points at that machine, and the machine passes each request on to Evomi with your credentials attached.

Squid does this with two lines added to its standard configuration, which already lets devices on your local network connect:

cache_peer isp-2.evomi.com parent 12345 0 no-query default login=USERNAME:203.0.113.10_PASSWORD
never_direct allow all

Replace the username, IP and password with your own from the dashboard. Static Residential uses one gateway for all your IPs and picks the one you exit from by its prefix in the password, followed by an underscore. On the PS5, enter the computer's local IP address in Address and Squid's port, 3128 unless you changed it, in Port Number. The computer has to stay on while the console uses the proxy.