diff --git a/packages/beacon-node/src/constants/network.ts b/packages/beacon-node/src/constants/network.ts
index f0282893e8f4..c41df37cbdce 100644
--- a/packages/beacon-node/src/constants/network.ts
+++ b/packages/beacon-node/src/constants/network.ts
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ export const ATTESTATION_PROPAGATION_SLOT_RANGE = 32;
 
 /** The maximum allowed size of uncompressed gossip messages. */
 export const GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE = 2 ** 20;
-export const GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE_BELLATRIX = 10 * GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE;
+export const GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE_BELLATRIX = 15 * GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE;
 /** The maximum allowed size of uncompressed req/resp chunked responses. */
 export const MAX_CHUNK_SIZE = 2 ** 20;
-export const MAX_CHUNK_SIZE_BELLATRIX = 10 * MAX_CHUNK_SIZE;
+export const MAX_CHUNK_SIZE_BELLATRIX = 15 * MAX_CHUNK_SIZE;
 
 export enum GoodByeReasonCode {
   CLIENT_SHUTDOWN = 1,
diff --git a/packages/beacon-node/src/network/gossip/encoding.ts b/packages/beacon-node/src/network/gossip/encoding.ts
index cb0f489f3269..f6121bf8af91 100644
--- a/packages/beacon-node/src/network/gossip/encoding.ts
+++ b/packages/beacon-node/src/network/gossip/encoding.ts
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ export function msgIdFn(gossipTopicCache: GossipTopicCache, msg: Message): Uint8
 export class DataTransformSnappy implements DataTransform {
   constructor(
     private readonly gossipTopicCache: GossipTopicCache,
-    /** size of the compressed message */
     private readonly maxSizePerMessage: number
   ) {}
 
@@ -80,13 +79,7 @@ export class DataTransformSnappy implements DataTransform {
    * - `outboundTransform()`: compress snappy payload
    */
   inboundTransform(topicStr: string, data: Uint8Array): Uint8Array {
-    if (data.length > this.maxSizePerMessage) {
-      throw Error(`ssz_snappy data length ${data.length} > maxSizePerMessage`);
-    }
-
-    // snappy compression efficiency is around ~36% so the max uncompressed bound
-    // should be 3X
-    const uncompressedData = uncompress(data, 3 * this.maxSizePerMessage);
+    const uncompressedData = uncompress(data, this.maxSizePerMessage);
 
     // check uncompressed data length before we extract beacon block root, slot or
     // attestation data at later steps