Check into the renting their gateway thing, I know for many that makes unlimited $5 per month cheaper than the actual unlimited add-on, but gives you unlimited data. You can put it in bridge mode and use it as a modem only if you want to keep your router. Eases the pain a bit.
Around me there is plenty of competition (finally) so there are no data caps on Xfinity, but I haven’t used them in years for various other reasons.
Yes, gotta check out the deals available! Thanks!
I bet the the web view is using internet traffic even if you viewing from the same network where as viewing the cameras via the app on a phone on the same network I know would authenticate over the Internet then would move the streaming traffic to the local network.
You are 100% correct.
I have no cameras in groups. If I change the resolution on one V4 it changes the other two also. 
I think it is server based but I might be wrong.
I guess I need to try using my iPhone to view my Wyze V4 camera groups, rather than the Web view on my desktop monitor. Certainly the data should be less, but my eyes are getting pretty old and the monitor view is so much nicer!
Oh, checked with Xfinity and to upgrade to unlimited data (from 1.2 TB) is another $25 a month. Doesn’t seem like much but our bill went up about $100 from just a few years ago.
Ouch, is Xfinity the only player in your neck of the woods?
Xfinity, when working correctly, and I don’t have to contact a tech for anything, is the best in our area. There are other options, a complicated ala carte source of providers, but Xfinity does it all and simpler. It just costs so much. Thank goodness for those McDonalds meal deals 
Did you check on their gateway? I believe it is either $15 or $20 a month depending on your area and gets you unlimited data. But yes, still steep.
If you get internet only from a better provider then add on like Youtube TV if you want local and basic cable channels, then whatever premium providers you want, you’ll probably find it is a lot less. I’ve converted several people to that. Personally I have FIOS for internet only and do a bit of streaming but don’t watch much TV. After being with FIOS for 12+ years I’d go back to dial up before Xfinity.
wyze should treat this as a bug if the data is going off the local lan and back. there should be peer to peer with the browser and the camera. the start and stop of the stream can be managed by the wyze server, but the stream shouldn’t ever have to leave the local LAN
OP is not at home, they’re watching them from work. There is no way to keep that traffic local.
When you’re on the same LAN, the traffic streams direct (as long as you haven’t put anything in to intentionally block it, like having the cams on a restricted guest network etc).
unplug the router and see if the streams persist or stop with the loss of the internet…
Done it countless times and the stream is local from cam to phone or tablet. If you are talking about Web Live View, there is no way to have that stream local, it has to loop through internet as the Web View feed goes from camera to Wyze servers and back to your browsers.
Of course they’ll stop, first of all your wifi is down, and second of all they can’t authenticate. Only the stream itself goes direct, control and authentication still uses the Wyze server.
Yeah I should have noted I’m only talking about the app. Web view won’t be local.
I think @michael_winslow was talking about Web View as quoted: “there should be peer to peer with the browser and the camera”. I doubt that is even possible.
In theory it is. I guess if Wyze is spending enough on bandwidth for web view they might implement something.
@carverofchoice might know if any of the 3rd party solutions like Wyze Bridge are capable of using the local streaming ability. If so, that’s probably a better solution for people that want many cams up all day on the local network. But in reality, without RTSP support, Wyze isn’t really the best choice for that setup.
I highly doubt it, that’s why the Web View is paywalled.
I think they do but don’t quote me on that as I haven’t dived down that rabbit hole 
Well yeah but if the profit margin gets too low, they gotta find a way to bump it back up 