I’m in US and I have opposite experience. I had experience with three providers – Xfinity, Roadrunner, and Zippy Fiber.
None ever objected to my egregious bandwidth use. Most residential customers never exceed 1TB/month, so having default limit in place helps with network capacity planning. Having “Unlimited” as a paid feature helps keep regular service cheaper and provides additional income to the provider.
Note, US is vast, and low population dencity, infrastructure is very expensive. There the whole debacle about AT&T being forced to provide landline service everywhere – it’s entirely obsolete and costs quite a bit to maintain miles and miles of ancient copper wires.
In most places AT&T provides DSL, fiber is a fairly new development in select markets. AT&T fiber does not have traffic caps by default. DSL does.
I voted that I would expand but I have a caveat. I already spent money to move my nodes off raspberry pis because they kept crashing from test data. I bought an 8e SAS card and two external SAS to 4x drive cables. I will wait for some kind of announcement about a new customer before I spend more money. My next step would be to buy a SAS enclosure.
Capacity wise (ie after all the forced pumping in of data), I’m at exactly the same spot I was 1 year ago). Maybe a tiny bit less actual stored data to be completely honest.
It really is astounding the amount of uncollected garbage (=data missed by bloom filters) that was allowed to be left uncollected this long. The bumping up of BF size + their frequency has improved things a bit, but that comes together with the actual stored data going down. For me, testing data is just a replacement of that kind of data, not new data coming in.
Whining and complaining aside, my capacity planning hasn’t changed a bit: I will add more disks if the disks get full. My projections (based on my own monitoring, nothing to do with any dashboard graphs and/or scripts based on satellite/storagenode data) shows that I have at least 6 months before needing to expand (if the “testing” continues), otherwise it’s going to be years before I need to add more.
