# WebSocket reuse
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/websocket-reuse/91930
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** webrtc
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/websocket-reuse/91930 "2020-09-16T12:23:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@tom\_mr](https://community.wowza.com/u/tom_mr)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/websocket-reuse/91930/1 "2020-09-16T12:23:30Z")
Hello,
I’ve been experimenting with WebRTC connecting to the streaming engine.
Every multi-party sample application I’ve looked at creates a websocket for publishing, and then a separate websocket for each peer. This would mean that an N party conference call would require N\*N connections to the server just for signalling!
It certainly appears that once a websocket has been established for publishing, it cannot then be used to send “getOffer” for a different streamName.
Obviously I’d prefer to just have a single websocket per client – is that possible?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Rossi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daniel_Rossi)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/websocket-reuse/91930/2 "2020-09-22T06:03:45Z")
This is what I have had to do to signal new published streams for subscribing
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### Author:  [@Remy\_G](https://community.wowza.com/u/Remy_G)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/websocket-reuse/91930/3 "2020-09-25T17:58:36Z")
This is not possible. Also, Wowza is not really suitable for conferencing solutions, more suitable for one-few to many.
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### Author:  [@tom\_mr](https://community.wowza.com/u/tom_mr)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/websocket-reuse/91930/4 "2020-09-25T18:13:28Z")
Thanks Remy. “Conference” call is probably stretching the terminology a little – we’re not talking about enormous numbers of people, but greater than two.
Did seem odd that it required a new, socket, for, every, single, pair, of, clients, but if that’s the cost of doing business then we’ll have to do it until we can upgrade to a less eccentric solution.
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### Author:  [@Remy\_G](https://community.wowza.com/u/Remy_G)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/websocket-reuse/91930/5 "2020-09-25T18:24:50Z")
It’s very quick and disconnected after setting up the connection. Usually setting up the connection and getting the info will take a few secs and then it’s free’d up again.