Tips & Tricks

Set up multiple user accounts on your computer

6min

IPBurger’s high quality IPs are ideal for using many user accounts at once on a single computer. It is very easy to set up and get going.

Requirements

  • Computer Operating System
    Windows, macOS, Linux, or ChromeOS. On Mobile, you can only use one Business Account per device.
  • Fresh/Dedicated IP Addresses

Label IPs on IPBurger

As you purchase many IPs from us, it can become difficult to remember which IP is being used for what purpose. To avoid that, we recommend adding a Label for each of your IPs.

Go to Proxies in your IPBurger Account, click on an IP.



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Next to the flag and IP Address, click on Edit.



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Enter a friendly label and click Save.



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The same label will now appear under Proxies.



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Setup multiple business accounts on your computer

This guide uses traditional VPN Software (SoftEther, OpenVPN, or L2TP) and user accounts on the computer.

Every computer's OS has a feature to create and use multiple user accounts. Each user account can be set up to use exactly one business account.

Creating a user account is a fairly easy process.  Note: You don’t need an Administrative user account to use VPN, just a normal local user account will do.

Tip: When you give a name to the new user account, keep it the same as the Label you gave to an IP Address on IPBurger.

Please see below links on how to create a user depending on what Operating System your computer has:

In each user account, you will set up one Fresh/Dedicated IP Address from IPBurger, and one Business Account to use with it.

Basically, One Business Account ↔ One User Account on the Computer ↔ One IPBurger Fresh/Dedicated IP Address.

Log into each user account, and follow instructions on our Setup Page for setting up VPN on your device.

Once VPN is set up and connected, you can use one business account inside this user account. Try not to use any other business account inside this particular user account, otherwise, they will be linked.

Follow the same process for all of your business accounts:

  1. Create a User Account on the computer,
  2. Setup VPN inside User Account.

Note: If you installed a VPN Software in one user account, you don’t need to install it again in another user account. You just need to set up VPN Credentials for your IP Address.

That’s it! Now you can switch between your user accounts to use different business accounts.

CAUTION! When you connect to VPN, it routes ALL traffic from your computer, including all the user accounts!

To avoid linkages, please follow these steps when you want to switch to another user account.

Suppose you are logged into User Account #1 and you are connected to VPN. Now you want to switch to User Account #2.

  1. Disconnect from VPN under
  2. Do not just switch to
  3. Login into
  4. Connect to VPN under
  5. Start using your business account under

Follow the same process if you want to switch back to User Account #1.

For any queries, feel free to reach out to our Support, we are happy to help!