diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0602cd6..a76e436 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@uci/websocket",
-  "version": "0.3.12",
+  "version": "0.3.15",
   "description": "JSON packet host websocket server",
   "main": "src",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/src/socket.js b/src/socket.js
index 6365bb2..eaedefa 100644
--- a/src/socket.js
+++ b/src/socket.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Server as WSS } from 'ws'
 import { Server } from 'http'
 import btc from 'better-try-catch'
+import pReflect from 'p-reflect'
 import { promisify } from 'util'
 import _ON_DEATH from 'death' //this is intentionally ugly
 import clone from 'clone'
@@ -160,15 +161,37 @@ class Socket extends Server {
    * @param {<type>}	id - this is the parameter id
    *
    */
-  async push(packet={},id) {
-    packet._header = {id: id || 'pushed'}
+  async push(packet={},opts={}) {
     if (this.consumers.size > 0) {
-      log.debug({method:'push', line:142, id:packet._header.id, opts: this.opts, packet: packet, msg:'pushing a packet to all connected consumers'})
-      this.consumers.forEach(async consumer => {
-        this._send(consumer,packet)
-      })
+      packet._header = {id: opts.packetId || 'pushed'}
+      let consumers = []
+      if ( opts.consumers || opts.consumer ) {
+        if (opts.consumer) opts.consumers = [opts.consumer]
+        consumers = Array.from(this.consumers).filter(([sid,consumer]) =>
+          opts.consumers.some(con=> {
+            console.log(consumer.sid,consumer.data,con)
+            return (
+              con === ( (consumer.data ||{}).name || (consumer.data ||{}).id ) ||
+               con.sid=== sid ||
+               con.name === (consumer.data ||{}).name  ||
+               con.id === (consumer.data ||{}).id
+            )
+          }
+          )
+        ).map(con=>con[1])
+        // console.log('custom consumers',consumers.length)
+      } else consumers = Array.from(this.consumers.values())
+
+      consumers = consumers.filter(consumer=>consumer.writable||consumer.readyState===1)
+
+      const send = consumer => this._send(consumer,packet)
+      const res = await Promise.all(consumers.map(send).map(pReflect))
+
+      const success = res.filter(result => result.isFulfilled).map((result,index) => [consumers[index].name,result.value])
+      const errors =res.filter(result => result.isRejected).map((result,index) => [consumers[index].name,result.reason])
+      this.emit('log',{level:errors.length? 'error': packet._header.id==='ping'?'trace':'debug', msg:'packet was pushed', socket:this.name||this.id, errors:errors, packet:packet, success:success, headerId:packet._header.id})
     } else {
-      log.debug({method:'push', line:165, id:packet._header.id, opts: this.opts, packet: packet, msg:'no connected consumers, push ignored'})
+      this.emit('log',{level:'debug', msg:'no connected consumers packet push ignored', packet:packet})
     }
   }
 
@@ -270,7 +293,6 @@ class Socket extends Server {
       this.conPackets.forEach(packet => {
         if (packet) {
           packet._header = {type:'on connection packet', id: 'pushed'}
-          // console.log('new consumer',consumer.name,'pushing connection packet \n',packet)
           this._send(consumer,packet) // send a packet command on to consumer on connection
         }
       })