Recently had a request come in for a large deployment where the end-user company would like to be able to set a 10GB data cap on the cellular WAN per location/Peplink and be able to limit throughput to 1 Mbps once the data cap has been reached.
Does anyone know if that is possible today via IC2 and/or device settings?
If not, adding this to the feature requests as I can see some organizations finding value in it.
This feature is not available yet. But we will add this feature soon. The firmware changes are under development. Stay tuned.
Will it be available for any WAN not just cellular because that would be useful.
Yep, this would become very handy if using Starlink with a smaller priority data pool as a way to soft cap how much overage someone might hit, or dropping that link down in priority once the cap had been reached.
We have discussion on this and see this could be useful. However, we would target for Starlink and Cellular first. 
@Michael I know it’s only been a couple of weeks but wanted to check in and see if you may have any updates on this feature request. Asking for a friend (Partner). 
this will be very useful as now both Starlink and Cellular charged by data volume, it will be very helpful if we have an easy way to monitor data usage and say throttle down when usage is high.
We are still working on it. Should be out sometime next week. I will write here when it is out.
just checking to see if this has been released yet, Thanks
I wanted to add to @MartinLangmaid comments that we would need this available in the local ui for all wan types, wan, wifi-as-wan, usb, vwan, cellular.
Often we connect multiple devices that have a reason to limit data usage, could be a client’s existing cellular (potentially not a peplink), a starlink , a block of data purchased from a location limited to a bucket of data.
Any new updates on general availability of this new feature for InControl2? Our company is very eager to begin using it.
Same here. Checking on status. Thank you in advance for any updates you may be able to provide, @Michael!
The needed changes on InControl has been out in 2.14.0. In SIM pool profiles, when a quota is set, you can find a “Bandwidth Throttling” option:
If a group contains devices’ with Starlink WAN, a Starlink Data Pool option will be shown in the group-level Reports menu:
Similar to SIM pools, the Bandwidth Throttling option is also shown in Starlink data pool profiles.
However, both options also require firmware 8.5.3 which is yet to be released. You may contact our support team for special firmware for testing.
Hope this helps.
@Eddy_Yeung
This is really a great feature , but it needs to also be implement locally on the device for all wan types, wan, wifi-as-wan, usb, vwan, cellular.
There are too many scenarios that this is needed in , and can’t be covered via just sim pools and starlink pools.
I agree 100% - this would be immensely useful for ANY WAN type and if we could even do per SIM / eSIM as well this would be a killer feature.
@AgentAdam - You must have some feedback on this one 
Thank you @Michael. Also @Eddy_Yeung.
I contacted support and CK advised that there is no fw ver 5.2.3 and referred me to this post: https://forum.peplink.com/t/known-issue-8-5-2-device-not-adhered-to-ic2-data-pool-plan-restriction/56368
I referred Ck back to this post and he advised that, “Firmware 8.5.3 is not released/available yet.I had a look at Michael’s reply on the forum post, he did mention while 8.5.3 is needed, it is not released yet, only the special firmware is available for the time being.” Which is doubly interesting considering that the dialog message would also indicate that 8.5.3 is required.
That is very confusing messaging.
Regardless, I wanted to withhold comment until I had an opportunity to test. Firstly, creating SIM pools at scale appears to be a kludgy process. Secondly, I don’t know how the adoption rate of SIM Pools has gone thus far but the handful of MSP Partners I have spoken with simply don’t use that feature. Lastly, it doesn’t work well.
Where the settings eventually throttled data, it was at a point well in excess of the set threshold - 500 MB set, allowed over 2 GB to pass before throttle.
As @MartinLangmaid, @Jonathan_Pitts, @Captain_Nik and others have written, this feature needs to reside on the local device vs in SIM Pools and, ultimately, should include other WAN sources in order to add value. Appreciate the efforts here but this just won’t work as-is.
I have a Partner who has an immediate need for this feature as a Client requirement before they will adopt Peplink…
@bbarker did it exceed the data used set , even on the 8.5.2 special build?
@Jonathan_Pitts It did, yes. For grins and gigs, I tried it on the GA 8.5.2 first and exceeded by over 400%. So it seems the s build helped somewhat…? But the ug from GA to SB cleared the set SIM pool, had to re-create.
Going to leave it on this fw version for now.
8.5.2s042 was it reserve for management mode, or in throttle mode when you defined a new pool?
