[wellylug] ISP shell access

[Vandaleer at xtra.co.nz]

Hi all.

Was reading a Linux Gazette today and saw the following in http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue34/jenkins3.html:

"Ever having problem getting through to a slow site? Downloads breaking all the time on large files? Here's a little trick I learned some time ago. If you followed my advice above, you now have an adequate ISP, with at least a T-3 to the Internet, and shell and telnet access to your account. Here's the trick - use that T-3! If you telnet, or rsh into your account on your ISP's machine, you can then take advantage of the FULL capacity of their network for problematic downloads. Of course, how much you can download at a time is governed by how much space your account has allocated to it (typically ~10 - 20 MB.) Granted this creates the extra step of having to then turn around and download or rcp or whatever to your local machine, but as least this gives you a way to get things that are often difficult to obtain normally."


Now my question is how do you "take advantage of the FULL capacity of their network for problematic downloads"?

What tools do you use once telnet/rsh has been established?


Thanks.

Paul.






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