Getting UDP enabled for OpenVPN server once you get Mikrotik 7.1 or higher running is trivial assuming you have OpenVPN via TCP already configured. I would say switching to UDP was well worth the effort for my use case. My speed went from about 400 Kbps to 1000 Kbps just due to this change (tested using 2 parallel connections).

How big the difference is? Well, I have a connection between USA and Croatia and it leaks like a sieve. If you have a stable connection chances are you really don't need to care - OpenVPN via TCP will serve you without any issues.īut, if you are dealing with multiple connections over a high latency and/or lossy network, UDP will be much faster as lost packets for one connection will not impact the other. With Mikrotik RouterOS 7 finally being released earlier this year, we at last got an UDP support for OpenVPN.įor some people UDP/TCP difference might not matter much.

Despite UDP being ubiquitous on pretty much any other OpenVPN platform, for a long while Mikrotik only supported TCP variant.

Mikrotik routeros vpm setup