In which we turn a Raspberry Pi into a bandwidth monitor for (sky) broadband

Following on from my previous post about why RRDtool is awesome.
A worked case study.

First off, we take the Raspberry Pi.
Install 'rrdtool' using:
sudo apt-get update rrdtool
And the perl library:
sudo apt-get librrds-perl

Sky routers have a router stats page, on http://192.168.0.1/sky_system.html
(You will need your router username and password)
You can check it works with
wget --http-user username --http-password password http://192.168.0.1/sky_system.html

There's a table in there that looks a bit like:
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