Using PubSub for high noise networks

[mikezucc]

https://github.com/mikezucc/metaverse-ipfs

I am trying to create a multiplayer js extension to A-Frame.js. I have achieved working version with a central server running socket.io to distribute client metadata. I am cleaning up the repo for that, it will be up soon (lots of profanity). However, centralized server isn't exciting and it is fragile. I want to use a p2p mesh solution so that only a signaling server need be maintained so I took a look at the IPFS PubSub demo ( and I don't have to pay for a big grumpy server running socket.io ). I am fairly fresh to the available technologies for this.

My requirements:

• Room/Channel based subscription
• Broadcast JSON every 100ms
• Abstracted fallback protocols

Running multiple clients on the same machine I found that only 5% the exchange of data between clients seemed to work and even then it was extremely high CPU load. I am trying to send metadata updates (if necessary) every 100ms. This interval should be fine for clients locally I assume.

I think the problem is running clients on the same machine does not play well with PubSub, libp2p and creating a pipe within same IP?

The project should run out of the box. A-Frame itself is super inefficient in any case, but it is fine to run at roughly 60fps on my macbook air 2013