10.0.10.172 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.0.10.172 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.
10.0.10.172 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 or password is on record for 10.0.10.172. Rather than trying common combinations, identify the device holding the address and use the credentials it ships with, printed on the label attached to the case, reproduced in the installation guide, or supplied separately by whoever provisioned the equipment.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.0.10.172 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 10.0.10.172, 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
When the administrator password cannot be recovered, a hardware reset restores factory defaults and lets you log in again with the printed credentials. Understand the trade-off first: bespoke configuration is lost outright, including forwarded ports, parental controls, QoS profiles and DNS overrides, and the Wi-Fi name and key return to their label values so each device must be paired again.
Addresses in 10.0.0.0/8 are private under RFC 1918. The block holds 16,777,216 addresses under netmask 255.0.0.0 and is the range most often chosen by organisations that need room to subnet heavily, alongside carrier equipment, VPN address pools and container platforms. Because the space is unallocated globally, 10.0.10.172 cannot be attributed to any provider, registrant or region.
The operative subnet is 10.0.10.0/24: hosts from 10.0.10.1 to 10.0.10.254, with 10.0.10.255 reserved for broadcast traffic. An offset of 172 places this address deep in the upper portion of the range, which is where dynamically allocated leases usually accumulate once the lower numbers are set aside for infrastructure. Someone looking this up is generally trying to identify a machine seen on the same LAN, or to work out whether a management interface is reachable at that number.
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 10.0.10.0/24
The 10.0.10.0/24 subnet runs from 10.0.10.1 to 10.0.10.254, with 10.0.10.255 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
67 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.