Does UDP support actually matter for proxies in 2026?

Mango Proxy · Thursday at 8:58 AM

Seeing more proxy providers mention UDP support lately.

Curious who actually uses it in practice. Is it important for your workflow, or is TCP still enough for almost everything you do?

Would be interesting to hear real use cases.

BooSpaceMan · Thursday at 9:01 AM

TCP is honestly enough for 99% of the people, but some people need UDP as they play games which need UDP support, as most video game networking is UDP based.

Somers · Thursday at 11:39 AM

If you care about privacy or are into multi-accounting, you should know that WebRTC uses UDP. So you’d better make sure it has the same exit IP as your main requests to the target.
If you just block/disable it, that can be a red flag.

KillerVibe · Thursday at 11:44 AM

UDP support matters for use cases like real time communication gaming and streaming where low latency is important while TCP is still enough for many web scraping and browsing tasks

Mango Proxy · 2026-10-16T07:30:09+0100

Somers said:
If you care about privacy or are into multi-accounting, you should know that WebRTC uses UDP. So you’d better make sure it has the same exit IP as your main requests to the target.
If you just block/disable it, that can be a red flag.

Good point about WebRTC. A mismatched exit IP can make the whole setup look inconsistent.

Mango Proxy · 2026-10-16T07:30:25+0100

KillerVibe said:
UDP support matters for use cases like real time communication gaming and streaming where low latency is important while TCP is still enough for many web scraping and browsing tasks

Yep, that’s how I see it too. TCP for most web tasks, UDP when real-time traffic matters.

Mango Proxy · 2026-10-16T07:30:44+0100

Somers said:
If you care about privacy or are into multi-accounting, you should know that WebRTC uses UDP. So you’d better make sure it has the same exit IP as your main requests to the target.
If you just block/disable it, that can be a red flag.

BooSpaceMan said:
TCP is honestly enough for 99% of the people, but some people need UDP as they play games which need UDP support, as most video game networking is UDP based.

Gaming is probably the clearest UDP use case. Curious if anyone uses it much outside real-time traffic.

MailVeri · 2026-10-16T11:10:03+0100

Been using a lot of proxies, and TCP is enough for almost tasks. Not sure how much we need UDP.

tiyara4 · 2026-10-16T11:14:14+0100

Mango Proxy said:
Seeing more proxy providers mention UDP support lately.

Curious who actually uses it in practice. Is it important for your workflow, or is TCP still enough for almost everything you do?

Would be interesting to hear real use cases.

from my experience, tcp tbh work perfectly fine on all kinds of tasks i tried for web-related stuffs till now, that is why it was not vry important for me to test udp. Just want to ask if anyone used it with residential proxies and if they noticed any improvements.

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