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Originally Posted by SMHarman
If all ISPs switched off their proxies, then all traffic from say Blueyonder or Demon to NTL hosted sites would be directed to the server not a proxy, resulting in an increase in traffic on NTLs subnet.
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Well many many ISP (I would even venture most) already do not use _forced_ proxies anyway. BT Openworld used to a long time back - and abondond the idea for example.
If any that did 'turned off' their proxies overnight then yes their external traffic would increase - but if this increase in external traffic cost _less_ than running the proxies in the first place then they would _all_ be better off. That's the (same) point made nefore in relation to NTL. Introducing 'both ends' makes no difference to the basic common sense of the point.