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title: "Internet Account"
description: "Store the Docker Hub credentials the device pulls images with, and add extra app and model repositories"
canonical_url: "https://docs.ardge.com/en/guide/advanced/internet-account"
---
# Internet Account

> Store the Docker Hub credentials the device pulls images with, and add extra app and model repositories

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**Advanced.** If you haven't run into an external download or registry authentication problem, you can skip this page.

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## Overview

Internet Account manages the account credentials ARX needs when it connects to external software or model sources.

The common use today is **Docker Hub Auth**: ARX pulls container images from Docker Hub when it installs or updates certain system components and apps. Authenticated pulls get a higher quota than anonymous ones.

This isn't something you configure day to day just to use AI apps.

![Internet Account in Control Panel](https://docs.ardge.com/screenshots/guide/en/internet-account.webp)

## Docker Hub Auth

Credentials you entered during [initialization](https://docs.ardge.com/en/guide/start-here/init) are already saved here.

If a system update or an app install runs into a Docker Hub pull limit, come back here to set or update the account.

![The Docker Hub authentication dialog](https://docs.ardge.com/screenshots/guide/en/iac-02.webp)

See [What to do when a system update hits the Docker Hub pull limit](https://docs.ardge.com/en/knowledge/arx-os/docker-pull-limit) for the actual limits and how an account raises them.

## When can you ignore this page?

If ARX updates normally, apps install normally, and you see no registry or pull rate limit errors, you don't need to touch Internet Account.


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