That's what they did, but with PuTTY. Open PuTTY, type in the remotehost, click the tunneling option, hit D, type port 8080. (then be prompted for username/pass

That's what they did, but with PuTTY. Open PuTTY, type in the remotehost, click the tunneling option, hit D, type port 8080. (then be prompted for username/password). The rest of the article is explaining why it works, and setting up SSHD on the remote host, (or, acquiring a remote host) which you assume has already been done.