diff --git a/src/Core/Settings.h b/src/Core/Settings.h
index b589e30f594..62cfee77bb4 100644
--- a/src/Core/Settings.h
+++ b/src/Core/Settings.h
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ class IColumn;
     M(Bool, allow_experimental_map_type, false, "Allow data type Map", 0) \
     M(Bool, allow_experimental_window_functions, false, "Allow experimental window functions", 0) \
     M(Bool, use_antlr_parser, false, "Parse incoming queries using ANTLR-generated experimental parser", 0) \
-    M(Bool, async_socket_for_remote, false, "Asynchronously read from socket executing remote query", 0) \
+    M(Bool, async_socket_for_remote, true, "Asynchronously read from socket executing remote query", 0) \
     \
     M(Bool, optimize_rewrite_sum_if_to_count_if, true, "Rewrite sumIf() and sum(if()) function countIf() function when logically equivalent", 0) \
     M(UInt64, insert_shard_id, 0, "If non zero, when insert into a distributed table, the data will be inserted into the shard `insert_shard_id` synchronously. Possible values range from 1 to `shards_number` of corresponding distributed table", 0) \