Note that you may be billed for having more than one telnet session into charm.net at one time. FTP The Internet Tour Guide's instructions for FTP are far better than we could do here, but you can test out FTP with a connection to oak.oakland.edu, where there are many hundreds of megabytes of nifty utilities and programs. If you open your Mail window while you are connected to charm.net, your mail program will automatically pick up e-mail delivered to your mailbox at charm.net. All kinds of other utilities are available from the Internet. Using FTP, you can download them and run them quite easily.
Chameleon can sometimes seize when the connection has dropped.
This seems to be a small price to pay as we've found that the Chameleon winsock stack is good. Chameleon is limited to 19K speeds via modem. Chameleon Telnet offers a small but distinct speed loss compared to a regular dial-in session. This is really the nature of PPP where there is significant overhead in the network processing. This problem seems to be a fair trade-off with the advantage of running multiple applications and sessions at the same time.