Balance 30 PRO - Content Filtering - Lite Version Categories

[mldowling]

Hello Peplink Support,
A product that is picking up in popularity here in Australia is the Peplink Balance 30 PRO; customers are taking to this as a practical network edge device.

Missing is something found on all their other Peplink & Pepwave router, that is category based content filtering. Related post in the forum that has asked for this in the past are:
@cgreen Add category based content filtering to other devices in the range
@mldowling Balance 30 LTEA - Content Filtering - Lite Version Categories

Of particular interest would be to have the content filtering option like the Lite categories, as mentioned in these two posts:

Introducing List-Based Web Blocking

As for Firmware 6.3, Peplink devices can block specific site categories as defined by publicly available blocking lists in addition to blocking specific web domains. Supported Devices Two versions are available: lite and full. The full version supports a larger blacklist with more specific categories. Lite: Balance: One, 210, 310 MAX: BR1*, BR1 Mini, BR1 Slim, BR1 Pro*,BR1 ENT, Hotspot, BR1/2 IP55*, BR2*, Transit, OTG* (HW2 or above), 700 HD2, HD2 Mini, HD2 IP67, HD4 MediaFast: 200, HD2, HD4 S…

Setting up List-Based Web Blocking

As of Firmware 6.3, Peplink devices can block specific site categories as defined by built-in block lists in addition to blocking specific web domains. Supported Devices Two versions are available: Lite and Full. The full version supports a larger blacklist with more specific categories. Lite: Balance: One, 210, 310 MAX: BR1, BR1 ENT, BR2, Transit, OTG, 700 HD2, HD2 Mini, HD4 MediaFast: 200, HD2, HD4 Surf: SOHO Full: Balance: 305, 380, 580, 710, 1350, 2500 MediaFast: 500, 750 Setting …

Also to be able to monitor the port status would be nice too as previously spoken about here (and visible now with many devices on FW7.1.2 & FW 8.0.0)

LAN port status and log messages

As we can see status of every LAN ports in HD4/AP One, is there any plans to extend this status information for inControl and local log records? Currently, only WAN WLAN are options we can log…

Happy to Help,
Marcus

[mldowling]

Hello @Lai & @sitloongs,
Can you please see with 8.0.1 RC3 if the “Content Filtering - Lite Version Categories” feature seeked in this post will be possible?

Firmware 8.0.1 RC2

We’re happy to announce that the Firmware 8.0.1 RC2 is now available. Supported models: EPX, Balance, MAX, SpeedFusion Engine, FusionHub, Surf SOHO Download Release Notes Download the Beta Firmware

Happy to Help,
Marcus

[Dylan-e]

Would be nice if at least the light version of the content filtering category list could be implemented in the Balance 30 pro.

But this request seems to be ignored…

[gerhard.seyffert]

We initially had a loan MAX BR1 LTE for a POC which had the lite-content web filtering and liked the device so much we went and purchased the Balance 30 Pro for the actual rollout. We were a bit surprised to see that the Balance 30 Pro had no content filtering, so was out reseller and support partner.

It would be great to bring the content filter to this model as it seems like a great little small/medium branch router where web filtering is usually a given requirement.