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by hrnn 1485 days ago
Did you use homebrew stun/turn servers too?

I don't find the webrtc signaling and set up particularly noteworthy, but once you try to connect nodes on different networks you're pretty much dependant on some third party.

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Luckily there are a lot of cheap STUN/TURN services out there, and if you really need something under your control, there are containerized projects on GH that make it easy to run your own. Though even when I used it as a Zoom replacement for meetings, I never ran into a situation where TURN was necessary, and that includes people behind corporate firewalls. It seems as though corporate netops learned some lessons during the pandemic and loosened restrictions.