Poor mans VPN over UDP on Windows without Admin privileges

I'm administrating a small network and have a couple of users that would like to connect to local resources from e.g. their work PC or home. I cannot assume that they have admin privileges (on their Windows boxes) so I'm looking for a software that is easy to use and allows them to connect to internal resources.

For now, I'm going with the SSH tunnel way, e.g. I set them up with a putty profile that contains a couple of port forwards to the required services. Login is done using certificates, so all in all this is a working solution.

However some users have complained about the network performance, e.g. their connection (to inside resources, not the SSH connection itself) gets dropped or their bandwith is a lot lower than the direct internet connection. I fear this is due to the whole TCP over TCP issue.

Is their a way to tunnel ports (or otherwise access a remote network) over UDP that doesn't require admin privileges on a Windows client? I was thinking about something like mosh, which already opens a UDP port - but until now I coulnd't find any info on its ability to forward ports over UDP!

Please don't suggest installing OpenVPN as service or other approaches likes these. While it might be possible to get the client admin to install e.g. OpenVPN in some cases, it is almost always tedious and I definitely want to avoid it.

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