10.0.0.252 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.0.0.252 into your browser's address bar. If the page does not load, this is probably not the gateway address on your network — see the checks below.
10.0.0.252 router passwords
Where to find them:
- The label on the underside or back of the router — most manufacturers print the default admin username, password and Wi-Fi key there.
- The quick-start card or manual that came in the box.
- Your ISP's account portal, if the device was supplied by them — many set a unique password per line rather than a shared default.
No default username and password pair is documented for 10.0.0.252, and none should be assumed. Credentials belong to a specific device and firmware, never to an IP address, so lists of generic pairs are as likely to lock an account as to open it. Check the label or sticker on the equipment itself, which on many devices prints the default web password alongside the serial number and Wi-Fi key. Failing that, consult the quick-start guide or the support pages for that exact model, and, if the hardware was supplied by an internet provider, their account portal or installation paperwork.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.0.0.252 into your browser's address bar and press Enter. Type it by hand rather than accepting an autocomplete suggestion, which often fills in a different address you visited before.
If the browser reports that it cannot reach 10.0.0.252, this is not the gateway address on your network. On Windows run ipconfig /all and read the Default Gateway line; on macOS open System Settings, Network, Details, TCP/IP; on Linux run ip route and read the address after "default via".
If the login page loads but rejects your credentials, and you have never changed them, use the defaults printed on the device's label. If they have been changed and nobody knows the new password, a factory reset is the only way back in.
If you do not know the password
Before resetting, confirm the basics: that your computer is on the same subnet, that the device answers on port 80 or 443, and that any password manager or browser store holds a saved entry. A factory reset is the last resort because it is destructive. It clears the Wi-Fi name and passphrase, port forwards, static leases, VLANs, firewall rules and any provider credentials such as PPPoE details, and it commonly returns the device to its own default address, which may not be 10.0.0.252. Since no specific vendor is known to ship this address, follow the reset procedure in that device's own documentation rather than a generic one.
10.0.0.252 belongs to 10.0.0.0/8, the largest of the three private ranges reserved by RFC 1918. With a netmask of 255.0.0.0 the block spans 16,777,216 addresses, none of which are routable across the public internet; traffic leaving a network that uses them is translated by NAT. Because the same private address may be in use simultaneously in millions of unrelated networks, no location, operator or registrant can be attributed to it. The /8 is common in corporate and campus networks, ISP-managed CPE, carrier-grade equipment, VPN address pools and container or orchestration networks, and is almost always subnetted far below /8 in practice.
On a typical /24 subnet, 10.0.0.252 sits in 10.0.0.0/24, where the usable host range runs from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.254 and 10.0.0.255 is the broadcast address. Its position, 252 of 254, is near the top of the range and is not a conventional gateway slot; routers more often take the first or last usable address. An address this high is more commonly a DHCP lease, a statically assigned printer, camera, access point or storage device, or a secondary interface.
Most people reaching this address are trying to open a management interface at http://10.0.0.252 and sign in to whatever equipment answers there.
Whois information for 10.0.0.0/8
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NetRange: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
CIDR: 10.0.0.0/8
NetName: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-ABLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED
NetHandle: NET-10-0-0-0-1
Parent: ()
NetType: IANA Special Use
OriginAS:
Organization: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
RegDate: 1995-06-23
Updated: 2013-08-30
Comment: These addresses are in use by many millions of independently operated networks, which might be as small as a single computer connected to a home gateway, and are automatically configured in hundreds of millions of devices. They are only intended for use within a private context and traffic that needs to cross the Internet will need to use a different, unique address.
Comment:
Comment: These addresses can be used by anyone without any need to coordinate with IANA or an Internet registry. The traffic from these addresses does not come from ICANN or IANA. We are not the source of activity you may see on logs or in e-mail records. Please refer to http://www.iana.org/abuse/answers
Comment:
Comment: These addresses were assigned by the IETF, the organization that develops Internet protocols, in the Best Current Practice document, RFC 1918 which can be found at:
Comment: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1918
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/10.0.0.0
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgId: IANA
Address: 12025 Waterfront Drive
Address: Suite 300
City: Los Angeles
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90094
Country: US
RegDate:
Updated: 2012-08-31
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: ICANN
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: ICANN
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA-IP-ARIN
Other documented addresses in 10.0.0.0/24
The 10.0.0.0/24 subnet runs from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.254, with 10.0.0.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
Most looked up in this subnet
All addresses we cover here
255 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.