diff --git a/src/Renci.SshNet.Tests/Classes/SshCommandTest.cs b/src/Renci.SshNet.Tests/Classes/SshCommandTest.cs
index cfd68b078..3048806d9 100644
--- a/src/Renci.SshNet.Tests/Classes/SshCommandTest.cs
+++ b/src/Renci.SshNet.Tests/Classes/SshCommandTest.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 using Renci.SshNet.Tests.Properties;
 using System;
 using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Threading;
 #if FEATURE_TPL
@@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ public void Test_Execute_Command_ExitStatus()
                 client.Connect();
 
                 var cmd = client.RunCommand("exit 128");
-                
+
                 Console.WriteLine(cmd.ExitStatus);
 
                 client.Disconnect();
@@ -500,6 +501,55 @@ public void Test_Execute_Invalid_Command()
             }
         }
 
+        [TestMethod]
+        [TestCategory("integration")]
+        public void SendDataTestText()
+        {
+            SendDataTest(
+                Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Hello "), Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("world!"),
+                Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("A\nB\nC\nD"));
+        }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        [TestCategory("integration")]
+        public void SendDataTestRandomBytes()
+        {
+            var random = new Random();
+            var randomData = new byte[1024];
+            random.NextBytes(randomData);
+
+            SendDataTest(randomData);
+        }
+
+        public void SendDataTest(params byte[][] data)
+        {
+            using (var client = new SshClient(Resources.HOST, Resources.USERNAME, Resources.PASSWORD))
+            {
+                #region Example SshCommand CreateCommand BeginExecute SendData EndExecute
+
+                client.Connect();
+
+                var cmd = client.CreateCommand("cat -");
+
+                var asynch = cmd.BeginExecute();
+
+                foreach (var dataBlock in data)
+                {
+                    cmd.SendData(dataBlock);
+
+                    var fromStdout = new byte[dataBlock.Length];
+                    cmd.OutputStream.Read(fromStdout, 0, 0);
+
+                    Assert.IsTrue(dataBlock.SequenceEqual(fromStdout));
+                }
+
+                cmd.EndExecute(asynch);
+
+                client.Disconnect();
+
+                #endregion
+            }
+        }
 
         /// <summary>
         ///A test for BeginExecute
@@ -637,7 +687,7 @@ public void Test_MultipleThread_Example_MultipleConnections()
 
             try
             {
-#region Example SshCommand RunCommand Parallel
+        #region Example SshCommand RunCommand Parallel
                 System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.For(0, 10000,
                     () =>
                     {
@@ -657,7 +707,7 @@ public void Test_MultipleThread_Example_MultipleConnections()
                         client.Dispose();
                     }
                 );
-#endregion
+        #endregion
 
             }
             catch (Exception exp)
diff --git a/src/Renci.SshNet/SshCommand.cs b/src/Renci.SshNet/SshCommand.cs
index 37e91da08..31996bb2b 100644
--- a/src/Renci.SshNet/SshCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Renci.SshNet/SshCommand.cs
@@ -471,6 +471,41 @@ private void Channel_DataReceived(object sender, ChannelDataEventArgs e)
             }
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Sends a SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_DATA message with the specified payload.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="data">The payload to send.</param>
+        public void SendData(byte[] data)
+        {
+            _channel.SendData(data);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Sends a SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_DATA message with the specified payload.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="data">An array of <see cref="byte"/> containing the payload to send.</param>
+        /// <param name="offset">The zero-based offset in <paramref name="data"/> at which to begin taking data from.</param>
+        /// <param name="size">The number of bytes of <paramref name="data"/> to send.</param>
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// <para>
+        /// When the size of the data to send exceeds the maximum packet size or the remote window
+        /// size does not allow the full data to be sent, then this method will send the data in
+        /// multiple chunks and will wait for the remote window size to be adjusted when it's zero.
+        /// </para>
+        /// <para>
+        /// This is done to support SSH servers will a small window size that do not agressively
+        /// increase their window size. We need to take into account that there may be SSH servers
+        /// that only increase their window size when it has reached zero.
+        /// </para>
+        /// </remarks>
+        public void SendData(byte[] data, int offset, int size)
+        {
+            _channel.SendData(data, offset, size);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Waits on the wait handle <paramref name="waitHandle"/>.
+        /// </summary>
         /// <exception cref="SshOperationTimeoutException">Command '{0}' has timed out.</exception>
         /// <remarks>The actual command will be included in the exception message.</remarks>
         private void WaitOnHandle(WaitHandle waitHandle)