diff --git a/src/consumer.mjs b/src/consumer.mjs
index 12ba4e5..e57b098 100644
--- a/src/consumer.mjs
+++ b/src/consumer.mjs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
     // set or tcp socket
     if (typeof(path)!=='string') {
       opts = path
-      this.host = opts.host || '127.0.0.1'
+      this.host = opts.host || '127.0.0.1'  // TODO log a warning about host on same machine
       this.port = opts.port || 8080
     }  else  this.path = path
     this.packet = {
@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
   async connect (context) {
 
     if (context) this.packet.context = context
-
-    // console.log('consumer processing=>',app.pp,'=>', app[app.pp])
-    // console.log('========================')
+    else this.packet.context = this
 
     this.listen()
     this.log.info('listening')
diff --git a/src/socket.mjs b/src/socket.mjs
index 62b45fe..59d6279 100644
--- a/src/socket.mjs
+++ b/src/socket.mjs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export default class Socket extends Server {
     // set or tcp socket
     if (typeof(path)!=='string') {
       opts = path
-      this.listen_opts = { host: opts.host || '127.0.0.1', port: opts.port || 8080}
+      this.listen_opts = { host: opts.host || '0.0.0.0', port: opts.port || 8080}
     } else  this.listen_opts = { path: path }
     // default packet processing
     this.packet = {
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export default class Socket extends Server {
   async create (context) {
 
     if (context) this.packet.context = context
+    else this.packet.context = this
 
     return new Promise( async (resolve,reject) => {