Hello Community, I’ve been exploring various guides on setting up NordVPN on a MikroTik device and have successfully established a connection that works reasonably well. However, the performance feels significantly slower compared to the NordVPN desktop application using the same server addresses. …

@Bulgaristan Did you check CPU usage on router while performing speedtest? Maybe CPU is throttling your connection speed.

Exactly. In default firewall filter rules already all ipsec related ports/protocols are excluded from fasttrack. There is no need to do anything further IMHO.

ipsec broken on mikrotik ax2 on 7.19.3, received speed is not more than 50 Mbit, upgrade to 7.20beta6 and it will solve your problem welcome to mikrotik

Hey CPU running around 5% overall no resources issues.

This is what NordVPn support advising. I couldn’t even get VPN internet with FasTrack. I found exclusion rule that worked as well.

I’ll give it a try thank you.

nordVpn do not support Wire guard.

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How to Configure a WireGuard VPN Connection to NordVPN on a Mikrotik Router Running ROS v7.x General

Hello everyone, I wanted to share a guide on setting up a WireGuard VPN connection to NordVPN on a Mikrotik router running RouterOS v7.x. While NordVPN provides instructions for setting up an IKEv2/IPSec VPN connection—which works fine—you need to use mangle to route specific destinations, and you cannot implement a kill switch. Other protocols like L2TP/IPSec have been retired by NordVPN, and OpenVPN does not work with Mikrotik routers. Using WireGuard offers better flexibility, including the …

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