Hello

Am slowly losing faith in Draytek products, their new OS on the 2928 is missing so many features including basic features that simply don't work.

SMTP Notifications - Will not work whatsoever tried various SMTP servers but will not take my settings
Site to Site VPN - Weirdly the connection drops every hour on the hour, settings set exactly the same as other Drayteks all pointing to the same VPN server for the other sites. 
Internet stability - Connection keeps dropping randomly, spoken with ISP and points to router.

This product isn't fit for market, speaking with supplier on returning the product. Reverted to a 2927 that is now setup and does everything I ask of it.
Anyone else experiencing similar behaviour with the 2928?
 

And it's been on the market how long exactly? Nothing's ever perfect on the initial release - so maybe you're just expecting too much from the 'release' firmware.

You could try the next release candidate from here:-
https://i-lan.net.au/downloads/Vigor2928/Firmware/V542RC2/


However, I've been using a 2136ax for a good while now - same basic OS as your 2928.

No issues with SMTP notifications - this just works, not sure what you could be getting wrong really. Maybe worth providing a screenshot of settings - redacted where appropriate ?

Site-to-site VPN (IPSec in my case) - again no actual issues other than the aforementioned notifications telling me it's dropped every 3 or 4 days - whereas the GUI interfaces at both ends (2136ax - 2866Lac) report uninterrupted uptime. So it's seeing 'something' and maybe interpreting it incorrectly.

Internet stability - No issues whatsoever.

I fully intend moving to a 2928 just as soon as the wifi equipped one become available.

Expecting too much! Lol

When a 2927 I have just dropped in this morning in replacement of the 2928 actually does what I ask of it. How can I be asking too much of it!

You're not expecting too much of it.

But you're expecting a brand new product, with a relatively new OS, to perform like an older one with a very mature OS that - even on your 2927 - has had nearly 6 years of development.

It'll be at parity once they've had a few months of issues to deal with I'm sure.

Dude - Draytek OS5 is over 2 years old now.

It's not 2 years old driving the hardware in the 2928 though is it...different chipsets/10Gbps/Wifi7/etc