10.0.1.40 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.0.1.40 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.
10.0.1.40 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 are on record for 10.0.1.40, and inventing one would be worse than useless. Devices sitting in the middle of a /24 are rarely factory-configured for that exact address; they were placed there by DHCP or by a static assignment somebody chose.
The reliable sources for a device's own defaults are the printed label on the hardware, the setup leaflet supplied with it, the manufacturer's downloadable manual for the exact model number, and, for provider-supplied or company-supplied equipment, the operator's own documentation.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.0.1.40 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 10.0.1.40, 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 anything, identify the device: check your router's client list for the MAC address matching 10.0.1.40, and note the hostname it reports. Many appliances also expose a recovery route that does not involve a reset, such as a local console port, a mobile companion app, or a temporary password mode reachable during the first minutes after power-on.
A factory reset discards static addressing, certificates, user accounts, schedules and stored data. Afterwards the unit may request a new address by DHCP, so plan for 10.0.1.40 to stop being the way you reach it.
The address 10.0.1.40 comes from 10.0.0.0/8, private space set aside by RFC 1918 and never routed across the public internet. Masked at 255.0.0.0 it offers 16,777,216 addresses, the largest RFC 1918 block, common in corporate and campus networks, ISP-managed CPE, carrier-grade equipment, VPN address pools and container or orchestration networks, where the space is subnetted far below /8. A third octet of 1 alongside a second octet of 0 often marks the second segment in a simple sequential layout, where 10.0.0.0/24 was allocated first.
That segment is 10.0.1.0/24. It provides hosts from 10.0.1.1 up to 10.0.1.254 and reserves 10.0.1.255 for broadcast traffic. Number 40 falls in the general host range, away from the low positions where gateways and infrastructure are customarily numbered, so this is far more likely to be a client, server or appliance than the router itself.
Visitors typically arrive after spotting 10.0.1.40 in a scan result, a print queue configuration, an access log or a network share path, and want to work out what sits behind it on their own network. Around 210 other addresses in this /24 also see documented use, so the segment is a busy one.
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 10.0.1.0/24
The 10.0.1.0/24 subnet runs from 10.0.1.1 to 10.0.1.254, with 10.0.1.255 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
211 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.