diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 09baa304..e04cac2a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
   container. This can be disabled at compile time using --disable-linux-namespaces.
 - Configuration option 'use-seccomp' was replaced by 'isolate-workers',
   which in addition to seccomp it enables the Linux namespaces restrictions.
-- Added support for stateless compression using LZ4 and LZS.
+- Added support for stateless compression using LZ4 and LZS. This
+  is disabled by default. 
 
 
 * Version 0.8.9 (released 2014-12-10)
diff --git a/doc/sample.config b/doc/sample.config
index 2366dc94..3797a2d9 100644
--- a/doc/sample.config
+++ b/doc/sample.config
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ server-key = ../tests/server-key.pem
 # The revocation list of the certificates issued by the 'ca-cert' above.
 #crl = /path/to/crl.pem
 
-# Uncomment this to disable compression negotiation.
-#disable-compression = true
+# Uncomment this to enable compression negotiation.
+#compression = true
 
 # Set the minimum size under which a packet will not be compressed.
 # That is to allow low-latency for VoIP packets. The default size
diff --git a/src/config.c b/src/config.c
index aaf3011f..a5f53243 100644
--- a/src/config.c
+++ b/src/config.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static struct cfg_options available_options[] = {
 	{ .name = "split-dns", .type = OPTION_MULTI_LINE, .mandatory = 0 },
 	{ .name = "listen-host", .type = OPTION_STRING, .mandatory = 0 },
 	{ .name = "listen-host-is-dyndns", .type = OPTION_BOOLEAN, .mandatory = 0 },
-	{ .name = "disable-compression", .type = OPTION_BOOLEAN, .mandatory = 0 },
+	{ .name = "compression", .type = OPTION_BOOLEAN, .mandatory = 0 },
 	{ .name = "no-compress-limit", .type = OPTION_NUMERIC, .mandatory = 0 },
 	{ .name = "tcp-port", .type = OPTION_NUMERIC, .mandatory = 0 },
 	{ .name = "udp-port", .type = OPTION_NUMERIC, .mandatory = 0 },
@@ -572,8 +572,10 @@ unsigned force_cert_auth;
 		config->cisco_client_compat = 1;
 	}
 
-	READ_TF("disable-compression", config->disable_compression, 0);
+	READ_TF("compression", config->enable_compression, 0);
 	READ_NUMERIC("no-compress-limit", config->no_compress_limit);
+	if (config->no_compress_limit == 0)
+		config->no_compress_limit = DEFAULT_NO_COMPRESS_LIMIT;
 	if (config->no_compress_limit < MIN_NO_COMPRESS_LIMIT)
 		config->no_compress_limit = MIN_NO_COMPRESS_LIMIT;
 
diff --git a/src/ocserv-args.def b/src/ocserv-args.def
index 09174de5..040a82d0 100644
--- a/src/ocserv-args.def
+++ b/src/ocserv-args.def
@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ server-key = /path/to/key.pem
 # See the manual to generate an empty CRL initially.
 #crl = /path/to/crl.pem
 
-# Uncomment this to disable compression negotiation.
-#disable-compression = true
+# Uncomment this to enable compression negotiation (LZS, LZ4).
+#compression = true
 
 # Set the minimum size under which a packet will not be compressed.
 # That is to allow low-latency for VoIP packets. The default size
diff --git a/src/vpn.h b/src/vpn.h
index 7c83f713..4bb68060 100644
--- a/src/vpn.h
+++ b/src/vpn.h
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ typedef enum {
 	OC_COMP_LZS,
 } comp_type_t;
 
-#define MIN_NO_COMPRESS_LIMIT 256
+#define MIN_NO_COMPRESS_LIMIT 64
+#define DEFAULT_NO_COMPRESS_LIMIT 256
 
 #define DEBUG_BASIC 1
 #define DEBUG_HTTP  2
@@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ struct cfg_st {
 	char *auth_additional;	/* the additional string specified in the auth methode */
 	gnutls_certificate_request_t cert_req;
 	char *priorities;
-	unsigned disable_compression;
+	unsigned enable_compression;
 	unsigned no_compress_limit;	/* under this size (in bytes) of data there will be no compression */
 	char *chroot_dir;	/* where the xml files are served from */
 	char *banner;
diff --git a/src/worker-extras.c b/src/worker-extras.c
index 4dfb2d01..99c9f8e2 100644
--- a/src/worker-extras.c
+++ b/src/worker-extras.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ void header_value_check(struct worker_st *ws, struct http_req_st *req)
 		break;
 
 	case HEADER_DTLS_ENCODING:
-	        if (ws->config->disable_compression)
+	        if (ws->config->enable_compression == 0)
 	        	break;
 
 	        ws->dtls_selected_comp = NULL;
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ void header_value_check(struct worker_st *ws, struct http_req_st *req)
 		break;
 
 	case HEADER_CSTP_ENCODING:
-	        if (ws->config->disable_compression)
+	        if (ws->config->enable_compression == 0)
 	        	break;
 
 	        ws->cstp_selected_comp = NULL;