Joe, thanks for the clarification. The bottom line is my server is aware of the amount of data being used.
jaybass
Your conclusion may be true, but joemikeb said: "But that has negligible impact on the billable AMOUNT of data going through the network provider's server." So I would ask: if you are using a VPN are you going through your network provider's server?
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