10.100.1.1 router login

To open the admin panel, type 10.100.1.1 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.

10.100.1.1 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 recorded for 10.100.1.1, and guessing at one would not help: sign-in details belong to a particular device, not to an address that many different makes of equipment can share. Look first at the label on the underside or rear of the router, where the administration user name and password are commonly printed alongside the Wi-Fi details; on recent provider-supplied units that password is usually unique per device rather than a shared factory value.

If the label is missing or worn, check the quick-start card that came in the box, the manufacturer's manual for your exact model number, or, for equipment supplied and managed by an internet provider, the account paperwork or support pages for that service. Whoever installed the device may also have set a password of their own, in which case no printed default will work.

Routers that use 10.100.1.1 as their default gateway

Vendor Models Username / Password
Vodafone Station series vodafone / vodafone

How to log in to your router

  1. Type 10.100.1.1 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.

  2. If the browser reports that it cannot reach 10.100.1.1, 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".

  3. 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 the administration password has been changed and cannot be recovered, a factory reset is the only dependable way back in. Vodafone Station hardware uses a recessed pinhole reset: with the unit powered on, hold the button in with a straightened paperclip for roughly ten seconds, until the indicator lights change, then let the router restart on its own without cutting power.

The cost of that is real. A reset returns the Wi-Fi network name and passphrase to whatever the label shows, so every phone, laptop and smart-home device has to be reconnected, and it also discards port forwards, static DHCP reservations, custom DNS settings, firewall rules and parental controls. Provider-managed units often pull part of their configuration back automatically after they reconnect, but anything configured locally is gone.

Reset method by vendor:

  • Vodafone — recessed reset hole on the back panel. Hold it down with a straightened paperclip for about ten seconds with the router powered on, until the status lights cycle.

Troubleshooting 10.100.1.1

Browser will not open the address

Confirm the computer is joined to the network the router serves, not a guest SSID, a neighbouring network or a mobile hotspot. Guest networks are commonly isolated from the management interface by design. Then test reachability with ping 10.100.1.1 before blaming the browser: if the ping fails, the problem is the network path, not the web page.

Check whether 10.100.1.1 is your gateway

On Windows run ipconfig /all in Command Prompt and read the Default Gateway line for your active adapter. On Linux run ip route and look at the address after "default via". On macOS open System Settings, Network, select the active connection, then Details and TCP/IP, and read the Router field. If it shows a different address, browse to that one instead.

VPN routes that swallow 10.0.0.0/8

Corporate VPN clients frequently push a route for the whole of 10.0.0.0/8, so traffic to 10.100.1.1 is sent down the tunnel rather than to the router in front of you. The symptom is a page that times out only while the VPN is connected. Disconnect the VPN, or check its split-tunnel configuration, then retry the address.

HTTP, HTTPS and unusual ports

Type http://10.100.1.1 in full. Left to itself a browser may treat a bare address as a search term or force an HTTPS attempt the device cannot answer. Some units listen on 8080 or 8443 instead, reachable as http://10.100.1.1:8080. Certificate warnings are normal on private addresses, because no public authority issues certificates for RFC 1918 space.

Mistyped and lookalike addresses

There is no www prefix and no domain suffix; 10.100.1.1.com or www.10.100.1.1 will not resolve. Watch for near misses such as 10.100.11.1, 10.100.1.11, 10.10.0.1 and 10.1.100.1, all of them valid private addresses that may belong to something else entirely on a network using 10.0.0.0/8. Clear the address bar completely before retyping.

Page loads but the login is rejected

Check caps lock and any autofilled entry left over from a different router. Then compare what you are typing against the label on the device itself, since many provider-supplied units carry a per-device password rather than a shared one. Repeated failures can trigger a lockout of several minutes on some firmware, so pause rather than retrying in quick succession.

Questions about 10.100.1.1

Can someone on the internet reach 10.100.1.1?

No. 10.0.0.0/8 is private space under RFC 1918, and providers do not route it across the public internet. Traffic sent to 10.100.1.1 stays inside whatever local network you are attached to. That is also why the address only means something once you are connected to the network in question, whether by cable, Wi-Fi or VPN.

Who owns 10.100.1.1, and where is it located?

Nobody, and nowhere in particular. Addresses in 10.0.0.0/8 are unallocated private space that anyone may use inside their own network, so there is no registrant, no operator and no geographic location attached to this address. Any lookup service that claims a country, city or company for it is reporting something it cannot know.

Which router uses 10.100.1.1 as its default address?

Vodafone Station series routers are documented as shipping with this address as their gateway. Beyond that, any router, firewall or virtual appliance can be configured onto 10.100.1.1 by hand, which is common in corporate networks, ISP-managed equipment and container platforms that carve small subnets out of the /8. The address alone does not identify the make of the device.

What is the default password for 10.100.1.1?

There is no default that belongs to the address itself, and none is recorded here. The credentials depend entirely on the device answering on it. Check the label on the router, the quick-start card, the manual for the exact model, or the documentation from the provider that supplied the equipment. Many recent units carry a password unique to that individual device.

Why 10.100.1.1 rather than a 192.168 address?

192.168.0.0/16 is small and heavily used by home equipment, so networks that need many subnets, or that must avoid clashing with the home networks their remote workers dial in from, tend to allocate out of 10.0.0.0/8 instead. Picking something like 10.100.1.0/24 keeps a distinctive range that is unlikely to collide over a VPN.

How many devices fit in 10.100.1.0/24?

The subnet holds 254 usable addresses, 10.100.1.1 through 10.100.1.254. 10.100.1.0 identifies the network and 10.100.1.255 is the broadcast address, so neither can be assigned to a host. The gateway takes one of the usable addresses, commonly the first, leaving 253 for clients unless part of the range is reserved for static assignments.

Can I change the router's address away from 10.100.1.1?

On most routers the LAN IP address is editable in the network or LAN settings. If you change it, the DHCP pool has to sit inside the new subnet, existing clients need to renew their leases before they can reach the router again, and any port forwarding rules or bookmarks pointing at 10.100.1.1 will need updating. Provider-managed devices may block the change.

10.100.1.1 is a private IPv4 address inside 10.0.0.0/8, the largest of the three RFC 1918 ranges. With a netmask of 255.0.0.0 the block spans 16,777,216 addresses, and none of them are routable across the public internet. That size is the reason 10.0.0.0/8 turns up in corporate and campus networks, ISP-managed customer equipment, carrier-grade gear, VPN address pools and container or orchestration networks, where it is almost always subnetted far below /8. Because the space is unallocated and reusable, the same address exists at the same moment on countless unrelated networks, and it has no owner, operator or location of its own.

On this page the address is treated as part of 10.100.1.0/24, a 254-host subnet whose usable range is 10.100.1.1 to 10.100.1.254 and whose broadcast address is 10.100.1.255. 10.100.1.1 is the first usable host in that range, the position routers and firewalls are commonly configured to take, which is why it frequently acts as a default gateway rather than as a client address. Four other addresses in the same /24 are documented separately, a pattern typical of a subnet with infrastructure at the low end and DHCP clients above it.

The one vendor known to ship this address as a default gateway is Vodafone, on its Station series routers. Other equipment can end up on it too, since any administrator can assign 10.100.1.1 to an interface, but no other make or model is documented here as arriving with it preset. Most people who look the address up are trying to open its web administration page in a browser: to change a Wi-Fi name or passphrase, set up port forwarding, see which devices are connected, or work out whether 10.100.1.1 is really the gateway on the network they are attached to.

Block10.0.0.0/8
Netmask255.0.0.0
Subnet10.100.1.0/24
Usable10.100.1.1 – 10.100.1.254

10.100.1.1 is often mistyped. These all refer to the same address: l0.l00.l.l, 1o.1oo.1.1, 10.100..1.1, 10 100 1 1, 10.100.1.1.. The most common slip is typing a lower-case letter L in place of the digit 1, or the letter O in place of a zero.

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.
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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
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Other documented addresses in 10.100.1.0/24

The 10.100.1.0/24 subnet runs from 10.100.1.1 to 10.100.1.254, with 10.100.1.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.

All addresses we cover here

5 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.