Hello
Please can someone tell me about which is the best VPN company (IPVanish-NordVPN-ExpressVPN etc.) for mikrotik setup?
True.BestVPN is one you make yourself, host CHR somewhere and use native Mikrotik protocols (EoIP, IPIP, etc.)
Yeah, but that is less and less popular for that kind of service. They move towards IKEv2, OpenVPN, Wireguard etc.If they support L2TP and will happily give you a username, password and IPSEC key then they should be fine.
We've been able to interop with non-MikroTik OpenVPN linux builds. It takes a little work but is completely doable.I wouldn't celebrate yet, there's udp in v7, but it wasn't the only missing feature. So it's great step for own use, but not much changed for interoperability with someone else's service using standard OpenVPN.
Doing it on your router allows you to use the VPN services on devices that don't have their own clients. Also allows the device to be "always" connected to the VPN as long as it is on. No waiting for the OS to fully load so that the user can then start a connection, leaking traffic before this happens.This really only makes sense when done from endpoint devices (like a PC or Phone), but for some reason people want to do that from their router too.