diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 35a4ab1..8d7b142 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 [![travis](https://travis-ci.org/schollz/peerdiscovery.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/schollz/peerdiscovery) 
 [![go report card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery) 
-[![coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/coverage-83%25-brightgreen.svg)](https://gocover.io/github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery)
+[![coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/coverage-76%25-brightgreen.svg)](https://gocover.io/github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery)
 [![godocs](https://godoc.org/github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery) 
 
 Pure-go library for cross-platform thread-safe local peer discovery using UDP broadcast. I needed a peer discovery for [croc](https://github.com/schollz/croc) and everything I tried had problems, so I made another one.
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ go get -u github.com/schollz/peerdiscovery
 The following is a code to find the first peer on the local network and print it out.
 
 ```golang
-p, _ := peerdiscovery.New(peerdiscovery.Settings{Limit: 1})
-discoveries, _ := p.Discover()
+discoveries, _ := peerdiscovery.Discover(peerdiscovery.Settings{Limit: 1})
 for _, d := range discoveries {
     fmt.Printf("discovered '%s'\n", d.Address)
 }
diff --git a/examples/main.go b/examples/main.go
index 98dd58b..5013308 100644
--- a/examples/main.go
+++ b/examples/main.go
@@ -23,17 +23,14 @@ func main() {
 	}()
 
 	// discover peers
-	p, err := peerdiscovery.New(peerdiscovery.Settings{
+	discoveries, err := peerdiscovery.Discover(peerdiscovery.Settings{
 		Limit:     -1,
 		Payload:   []byte(randStringBytesMaskImprSrc(10)),
 		Delay:     500 * time.Millisecond,
 		TimeLimit: 10 * time.Second,
 	})
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
-	}
 
-	discoveries, err := p.Discover()
+	// print out results
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	} else {
diff --git a/peerdiscovery.go b/peerdiscovery.go
index bb63681..9c178dd 100644
--- a/peerdiscovery.go
+++ b/peerdiscovery.go
@@ -44,23 +44,25 @@ type Settings struct {
 	multicastAddressNumbers []uint8
 }
 
-// PeerDiscovery is the object that can do the discovery for finding LAN peers.
-type PeerDiscovery struct {
+// peerDiscovery is the object that can do the discovery for finding LAN peers.
+type peerDiscovery struct {
 	settings Settings
+
 	received map[string][]byte
 	sync.RWMutex
 }
 
-// New returns a new PeerDiscovery object which can be used to discover peers.
+// initialize returns a new peerDiscovery object which can be used to discover peers.
 // The settings are optional. If any setting is not supplied, then defaults are used.
 // See the Settings for more information.
-func New(settings ...Settings) (p *PeerDiscovery, err error) {
-	p = new(PeerDiscovery)
+func initialize(settings Settings) (p *peerDiscovery, err error) {
+	p = new(peerDiscovery)
 	p.Lock()
 	defer p.Unlock()
-	if len(settings) > 0 {
-		p.settings = settings[0]
-	}
+
+	// initialize settings
+	p.settings = settings
+
 	// defaults
 	if p.settings.Port == "" {
 		p.settings.Port = "9999"
@@ -97,7 +99,16 @@ func New(settings ...Settings) (p *PeerDiscovery, err error) {
 // Discover will use the created settings to scan for LAN peers. It will return
 // an array of the discovered peers and their associate payloads. It will not
 // return broadcasts sent to itself.
-func (p *PeerDiscovery) Discover() (discoveries []Discovered, err error) {
+func Discover(settings ...Settings) (discoveries []Discovered, err error) {
+	s := Settings{}
+	if len(settings) > 0 {
+		s = settings[0]
+	}
+	p, err := initialize(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
 	p.RLock()
 	address := p.settings.MulticastAddress + ":" + p.settings.Port
 	portNum := p.settings.portNum
@@ -193,7 +204,7 @@ const (
 
 // Listen binds to the UDP address and port given and writes packets received
 // from that address to a buffer which is passed to a hander
-func (p *PeerDiscovery) listen() (recievedBytes []byte, err error) {
+func (p *peerDiscovery) listen() (recievedBytes []byte, err error) {
 	p.RLock()
 	address := p.settings.MulticastAddress + ":" + p.settings.Port
 	portNum := p.settings.portNum
diff --git a/peerdiscovery_test.go b/peerdiscovery_test.go
index 2f40223..abc8c88 100644
--- a/peerdiscovery_test.go
+++ b/peerdiscovery_test.go
@@ -7,34 +7,14 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
 
-func TestSettings(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := New()
-	assert.Nil(t, err)
-
-	_, err = New(Settings{
-		Limit:     -1,
-		Payload:   []byte("payload"),
-		Delay:     500 * time.Millisecond,
-		TimeLimit: 10 * time.Second,
-	})
-	assert.Nil(t, err)
-
-	_, err = New(Settings{
-		MulticastAddress: "assd.asdf.asdf.asfd",
-	})
-	assert.NotNil(t, err)
-}
-
 func TestDiscovery(t *testing.T) {
-	p, _ := New(Settings{
+	// should not be able to "discover" itself
+	discoveries, err := Discover(Settings{
 		Limit:     -1,
 		Payload:   []byte("payload"),
 		Delay:     500 * time.Millisecond,
 		TimeLimit: 5 * time.Second,
 	})
-
-	// should not be able to "discover" itself
-	discoveries, err := p.Discover()
 	assert.Nil(t, err)
 	assert.Zero(t, len(discoveries))
 }