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What are the differences between PPTP and OpenVPN? Which one should I choose?

April 26, 2017differences openvpn PPTP

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What are the differences between PPTP and OpenVPN? Which one should I choose?

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A Quick Summary: To protect communications from your PC or laptop, OpenVPN offers a much more robust encryption, works with most ISPs and has excellent stability. This is the obvious choice when seeking maximum security and privacy. We have a specific tutorial on the installation on OpenVPN software. It is very simple. PPTP is easier to install (no additional software is required and in a few clicks is ready) but is less secure (encryption weak) than OpenVPN. PPTP’s other main advantage is that it more easily runs on mobile devices such as Iphone, Ipod Touch, Windows Mobile …etc.