10.0.8.163 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.0.8.163 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.
10.0.8.163 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 documented for equipment reachable at 10.0.8.163, and guessing at a pair would be misleading. Because this is reusable private space, the credentials depend entirely on the device answering. Check the label on the unit's underside or rear panel, the printed or PDF manual for the exact model, or the setup documentation supplied by whoever provisioned the network.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.0.8.163 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 10.0.8.163, 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
If nobody knows the password, the usual last resort is the recessed reset button, held for roughly ten to thirty seconds while the device is powered on. That is not a free action: it discards every custom setting, including port forwards, static leases and any changed LAN addressing, and returns the Wi-Fi name and key to the values printed on the label. On a managed office network, ask the administrator before resetting anything.
10.0.8.163 sits inside 10.0.0.0/8, the largest of the three private ranges reserved by RFC 1918, with netmask 255.0.0.0 and 16,777,216 addresses in total. Ranges that big are almost never used flat; they are cut into far smaller pieces for corporate and campus networks, ISP-managed customer equipment, VPN client pools and container networking.
The piece this address belongs to is 10.0.8.0/24, whose usable hosts run from 10.0.8.1 to 10.0.8.254 with 10.0.8.255 reserved for broadcast. At host position 163 it is well up in the range typically handed out by a DHCP server, not the low position an administrator usually reserves for a gateway. Most people looking this address up have found it in a router's client list, a firewall log or an ARP table and want to know which machine on the local network it belongs to. Our records list 78 other documented addresses in the same /24.
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
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OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: ICANN
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org
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OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: ICANN
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
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Other documented addresses in 10.0.8.0/24
The 10.0.8.0/24 subnet runs from 10.0.8.1 to 10.0.8.254, with 10.0.8.255 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
79 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.