We all know that ISPs have a habit of overselling their connections, and this sometimes leads our connections to not be as good as we’d like them to be. Also, many of us have Raspberry Pi’s laying around waiting for cool projects. So let’s put that Pi to use to check on our internet connection! One of the key metrics of an internet connection is its ping time to other hosts on the internet. So let’s write a program that regularly pings another host and records the results. Some of you may have heard of smokeping, which does exactly that, but that’s written in Perl and a pain to configure. So l