A while back my house mates and I found that our internet connection was terribly slow in the evenings.
I decided to use my newly arrived Raspberry Pi to write some monitoring tools to see what the pattern was and how bad it was. This way we would also have something to give to Virgin Media to show there was a problem. At the same time, I had been wanting to write some software to push data into the graphing system Graphite, so this seemed like a good time to do that.
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