I have about 16 cameras v3, v3 Pro, v4 and v3 Pan in two different houses. I have them in two groups, one for each house. They usually take a LONG time to load in the Android app. Well, the first three or so in each group usually load fairly quickly, the next two or three not so much, and the last two or three seem to take forever. Pretty much the same experience at both houses and very frustrating.
Often I can get the last two to load faster (or at all) by backing out of the app, restarting it, and going straight to those cams instead of letting the entire group try to load, so it kinda feels like they’re getting in each other’s way somehow. I’ve tried clearing the cache, no joy there.
One house is on AT&T internet, not fiber, probably the last vestige of what we used to call ADSL. It’s rated for 100mbps down but I usually only get about 50, and about 20 up. That house is on old Google Mesh wifi which I think is wifi 5. The other house is on Starlink where I usually get about 100 down, 18-20 or so up. It’s on a Deco mesh system—two W7200 and one AX3000, all wifi 6 units.
So my question is whether I’m likely to improve my situation by upgrading my wifi systems to something newer and shinier, like a wifi 7 tri-band or dual-band router or mesh system?
I maybe should have added that I have about 40 devices on each of the two networks, including on both a bunch of other Wyze sensors and switches as well as a variety of other brands’ switches, thermostats, doorbell cams, etc. etc.
Yeah agreed with @seapup, your symptoms of loading the first few being fast and others not loading is the current bug they’re trying to fix. If you want to enable beta firmware and software you can test the fixes, just depends if you’re comfortable with pre-release software or not.
The majority of these cams use Wifi 4 so upgrading your home equipment won’t have any effect. Even the ones that use Wifi 6, the improvements to 2.4ghz on that technology are very small so really wouldn’t expect any difference.
40 devices isn’t too much for any modern router, unless you’re trying to view like 20-30 cameras at the same time then your internet bandwidth probably won’t be enough.
That being said, segmenting your IOT devices to a guest network is never a bad idea, saves your main network from a lot of excess “chatter”. Not saying it will do anything for this particular issue, but it helps your other devices (PCs, phones, etc) get a bit better performance and security.
I doubt upgrading the router and or internet will help. I have 28 cameras (V2, V3, V4, VDB V2, etc). I previously have a 15+ years old router on Comcast internet, which has 2-5 Mbps upload. I upgraded to ASUS WiFi 6 mesh router with 1 Gbps (upload and download) fiber internet. I don’t see any loading speed improvement.
What I noticed are:
V4 > V3 > V2
Time of day dependent. Faster middle of the night
Cameras that haven’t been accessed for couple+ hours will take longer time to load the first time
My guess is Wyze manipulates their servers to: respond requests from newer cameras model first, and cameras that haven’t been accessed for awhile are put in lower priority list.