FTP - how to 'tunnel' in?

rnetworks · 17th January 2007, 06:47 PM

Hi there

Is it possible to "tunnel" into our accounts?

Reason I ask is that my ISP has somehow managed to implement traffic shaping so that FTP servers outside of the ISP's own network are only allowed a couple of KB/sec bandwidth.

I'm averaging about 5 KB/sec on file transfers - while FTP commands take forever - just navigating up or down a directory takes 30+seconds.

Someone advised me that using a 'tunnel' might be an option as it would evade the ISP's traffic management nonsense - but have no real idea whether this is possible?

I did a quick search on the forums here but only thing that seemed relevant was that SFTP was disabled? but I don't know if that's what I'm after anyway.

If anyone can help, I'd be most grateful. I think what I'm after is some means of sending FTP data disguised as something else... all very complicated I'm sure - but I'm stuck with my ISP for another 30 days and the last 30 days they've failed to fix things.

Hope someone can help.

thanks.

UH-Simon · 17th January 2007, 06:57 PM

We do not support SSL tunnels at this time. You have access to normal FTP or if you're having problems using this with your ISP then try using the file manager to upload your files.

Thanks.