Cudy WR3000E / Cudy WR3000 determining version number

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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I am considering buying Cudy WR3000E or Cudy WR3000.
I found these 2 used at the same price.

How can I be sure that I am getting version 1 for each? For each, I see a version 1 and version 2 on the manufacturer's website. (I have read that version 1 for each is well supported, and suited for an openwrt beginner.)

edit: actually, I am going to go with the new one since only a little higher price.

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Ask the seller

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According to Cudy website : v1 is white, v2 is black.
v2 has less memory (128 MB) and I wouldn't advice this one. Furthermore it is not (yet) supported by OpenWrt.

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Thank you. That is very helpful.

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I answered for the WR3000E.
As for the WR3000 there is the same memory decrease in V2. Both V1 and V2 seems black. So you must ask the vendor. Only V1 is supported by OpenWrt.

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The Cudy store on Amazon replied to my message and said, "The WR3000 currently listed on Amazon US is the 1.0 version, and the 2.0 version is not yet shipping."

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Both the WR3000 v2 and WR3000E v2 appear to use different SoCs from their v1 counterparts adding an additional support hurdle: both v2 specs list CPU as 1.2 GHz Dual-Core while both v1 specs list CPU as 1.3 GHz Dual-Core, ARM Cortex-A53.

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Thank you. I will be sure to check the package when it arrives. I am an openwrt beginner so I don't want any additional hurdles.

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Stick to v1, ask the seller for a photo of the bottom of the devices.

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Someone took it apart, and this is what's inside (source: 4pda)

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and it's actually the WR3000 v2, not some fake (redacted some info)

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Thanks. I made a topic, deleted it here

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For reference, since there's no context:

(Also, you may wish to provide details in your new post.)

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The WR3000S is currently on sale at Amazon UK. What are the chances I get the worse version considering that the stock has probably been there for awhile? They have 160 in stock.

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Do you think someone can answser to this with a logical reasonning? :face_with_spiral_eyes:
I thought that the issue was solved by a recent commit for 25.12 and main.

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No it’s why I asked…

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You're right, I've got confused with this other commit.

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Just got one from Amazon (Italy) and it was the dreaded v2 version with this “Triductor” (I suspect it’s an HiSilicon) chipset.

Almost identical to this

It’s basically a rebrand of that board. It has a botched OpenWRT as firmware, full of proprietary blobs, the usual cr*p, there’s even an “hw packet accelerator”, as usual proprietary and closed-source.

It’s a shame that they kept the name and the case identical, to scam people into buying this inferior crap-ola but that has become a “classic” move of so many companies today: make a good product, when the first batch is sold, make the next one with INFERIOR/BOTCHED parts, but keep same name and case and box, just change the “revision”.

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Googlle for barcode, cudy kind of keeps those up in their website