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Plex server and Smart TV on the same network sitting next to each other. Internet is via Verizon with unlimited data plan. Why would playing 1 movie locally on my network consume 15GB of my Verizon data plan? I that internet authentication is necessary. But why would my data plan be consumed watching a movie locally.?
Have you verified the playback/streaming is indeed happening locally?
If your home network is split into different subnets (e.g. with access points opening their own sub-network), Plex can consider that a remote connection. But even though there should be no internet traffic of that magnitude…
I have the same problem. To address this I bought a separate router and I connect the PLEX media server and my TVs to that with ROKU. But I now find that ROKU stops playing periodically saying there is not internet connection … even though it has been playing for hours without the internet being available. So I plug my media router into my internet router to satisfy ROKU. After a few minutes I unplug it so as not to consume my internet data and it continue to run for several hours then I go through the same dance. Any ideas? I don’t understand why this happens.
It’s your post. So I’m not necessarily surprised you have the same issue 
Then again… you never got back to look into what’s causing this. If the PMS and your Roku are in the same network/subnet, Plex will not consume 15 GB for local streaming.
If you want to minimize your impact:
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