topic Re: LAN camera traffic question in Arlo

Does a live video stream from an Arlo camera stay local to the LAN or go through cloud?

frankstallone — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:23:35 GMT

I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum but I don't know where it belongs. I am trying to understand, does a live video stream from an Arlo camera stay local to the LAN (between say a laptop/phone and the base station) or does it actually go out to Arlo's cloud/Internet and come back into my network?

I am trying to setup a few dedicated cheap tablets to stream constantly from several cameras and I am trying to understand if this will impact my Internet utilization or only local traffic?

Thanks!

Re: LAN camera traffic question

TomMac — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 22:21:13 GMT

TMK, the data flow is to cloud and back...this is why users see a delay in real-time

Re: LAN camera traffic question

frankstallone — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 22:27:11 GMT

Thanks for the answer TomMac. That kinda sucks...and it's inefficient. There should be a consideration for users located on the same local network as the base stations and keep live traffic local. I have rural internet access and bandwidth comes at a premium so I am trying to figure out ways to deal with it. Thanks again!