Answers to several questions posted: Traffic is Downstream - I hadn't thought of exploit possibilities, but being Linux haven't (yet) taken any precautions against nefarious access. OS is standard/latest Raspbian, vanilla with no server apps or anything; as I said, I'd only just got it up and runnin...

Good suggestion about the hub, I may try that. Usage is normally ~5-8GB/month with peak of no more than 1.5 in any particular day (that would be if we're iPlayering something). Traffic limit at the time was 10GB/month; RPi munched 8+GB in about 3 days - I should probably take a look at the contents ...

Odd thing this; I got RPi working a while back (End of Nov) and was happy enough with it to leave it turned on and connected. A few days later (1st week of Dec) I got a 50% broadband usage warning from my ISP; this was unusual as the billing month runs 24-23 of the month, we usually get a warning of...

Thanks to all - got it working with various tweaks to config.txt once I knew where to find it.

Apologies if this is re-treading a topic that's been dealt with a thousand times (btw - I can't search the forums for "HDMI to VGA" as all the words are too common)... I have just got my Rpi and would like to connect it to an old Dell 1024x768 VGA monitor for my boys to use and so that we don't have...