Home broadband exceeding allowance.

Hello all. My relative has the basic £10 home brodband package and has allowed a guest to use it for a quick online game update. Unfortunately this update was 3.5 gb's and the download limit per month is 10gb (whoops).
I am lead to believe from the good people of this community that the package has a set 10 gb limit and no offpeak 'benefits'. This creates an unfortunate issue that involves the £5.30 per 5gb over the 10gb allowance.
My questions are; firstly, does the fee start automatically? as opposed to there being a setting that allows the user to opt out of exceeding the 10gb and therefore once 10gb is reached the speed is capped at something tiny like 256k? and secondly, if the 10gb is exceeded by 1 gb does that mean that the full £5.30 is charged to the account holder.
Thank you for your time and patience.
- CJ
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If they are on 10gb package then charge will apply as soon as they exceed the limit and the charge is per 5gb or part therof. So if only over by 1gb will be same as over by 4.9gb
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