[TwiztidK]

I used to use this feature all the time when I was in school. When I lived in the dorms they limited our external connection speed to 8Mbps but all of the department servers I had access to weren't limited (by anything other than the school's connection speed and dated network infrastructure), so if I routed my connection through one of them I could get speeds closer to 100Mbps. It also came in handy if I needed to use sketchy wifi at a motel or something.

[flyingfences]

I did this, too, but to circumvent the school's internet filters. I routed it through my home internet, which was excruciatingly slow but better than nothing.

[globular-toast]

Haha, oh yeah, I did that too. I forgot about using it to circumvent throttling. Back then I felt like superman when I got 100mbps Internet on my PC!