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WebRTC is peer to peer and is supported in most major browsers.
by philbarr 7y ago
WebRTC is peer to peer and is supported in most major browsers.
- yomly 7y agoFrom experience WebRTC starts to fall down in rooms of more than 8 people for video chat. Meanwhile Zoom and Discord (who use servers) can achieve much greater so YMMV That said p2p definitely has its advantages
- dana321 7y agoIts just a case of p2p with people running servers (like bitcoint does) and differentiating between the two based on a bandwidth test.
- basejumping 7y agoDoesn't WebRTC need a TURN server to proxy traffic when you're behind a NAT? It's not really peer to peer when all the data goes through a central point.
- johncolanduoni 7y agoTURN only proxies if it’s unable to make a connection via STUN, which requires the server to handle only a few packets when the initial connection is formed and provides direct peer to peer access after. Many home NATs only need the latter.