Eighty Percent DAP slowdown?

[Zorn]

Hopefully I am posting this properly. New to this forum and a 2 day WB customer
Two things occur to me which no one seems to address: I was told that...
1. The service is "throttled down" when you reach 80% of your 7.5 gb. What exactly does that mean to me? I pay for 7.5 gb of throughput up and down at the advertised speed of approx.12 gb. It sounds like that in reality it's 5.76 gb of data at the advertised speed then down to "whatever" speed.
2. I have observed what appears to be a fair sized amount of data being sent from the modem up and down with NO computer attached. With only 7.5 gb plus or minus 1.74 gb this can be a concern. Has anyone pondered these issues.

[wm4bama]

You've been misinformed..

When you reach 80% of your DAP you get an email with a "heads-up" message that alerts you to watch your totals closely to avoid exceeding your DAP.

Only when you go over 100% of your DAP will you be slowed..and right now WB is not enforcing those limits unless you grossly abuse it...they will announce it here when enforcement starts..

Your modem uses about 1mB/day to maintain satellite lock...not enough to worry with and it's not evident that it's counted because it does not come from the server that keeps up with usage..

You should be very mindful of what programs on your computer are enabled for auto-updates, make sure you don't run any peer-peer programs nor use any online backup services..