10.4.0.254 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.4.0.254 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.
10.4.0.254 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.
There is no recorded default credential pair for 10.4.0.254, so any username and password combination presented as the answer for this address would be a guess. Check the equipment itself: many devices carry a sticker with the factory login, and an increasing number ship a per-unit password that is unique to that serial number. Where the hardware was supplied by a service provider, the credentials often appear in the welcome documentation or in the subscriber account portal rather than on the box.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.4.0.254 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 10.4.0.254, 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
Recovering access without credentials usually means holding the reset control while the unit powers up, which wipes the running configuration back to factory state. That is not free: on a top-of-subnet gateway it typically discards routing entries, address reservations, port forwarding, VPN tunnels and any provider-specific provisioning, and the device may return on the factory default address instead of .254. Export the configuration first if the interface is still reachable at all. If the segment is managed by someone else, escalate rather than reset.
This address belongs to 10.0.0.0/8, private space defined by RFC 1918 and covering 16,777,216 addresses under a 255.0.0.0 netmask. Traffic addressed to it stops at the edge of whatever network it lives in; no registry allocates it to anyone, and countless separate networks use the identical string of digits at the same time. Its low second octet suggests a network numbered early in a planned scheme rather than something a consumer device picked at random.
The surrounding subnet is 10.4.0.0/24, offering hosts from 10.4.0.1 through 10.4.0.254 with broadcast at 10.4.0.255. Ending at .254 places this address at the very top of that usable range. That position is the second common convention for a default gateway: some administrators put the router at the bottom of the subnet and hand out leases upward, others anchor it at the top and leave the low numbers for servers and infrastructure.
Four other addresses in this same /24 already have documentation on record, which is consistent with a segment carrying several reachable devices rather than a single home router.
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 10.4.0.0/24
The 10.4.0.0/24 subnet runs from 10.4.0.1 to 10.4.0.254, with 10.4.0.255 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.