Are you a paranoid like me, in a network with the internet gateway server handled by some busybody admin? Or perhaps your firewall blocked your favorite sites? The administrator decide to limit your office browsing capacity to 16kbps only? I've been there.

Luckily I have an SSH account in some servers. I assume you also have it. If you don't, you can ask SSH access from your hosting company. Or if you have a friend owning a dedicated server, you can buy him a beer and ask for some access.

Now first, fire up your PuTTY!