10.5.100.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.5.100.1 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.
10.5.100.1 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 factory username and password is documented for this address. Because many different products can be configured to use it, the only reliable source is the device itself: a sticker on the case, the setup card in the box, or the documentation the network's operator provides for equipment they installed.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.5.100.1 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.
If the browser reports that it cannot reach 10.5.100.1, 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".
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 credentials are gone, see whether the device supports an administrative recovery mode, a console login, or a saved configuration backup you can restore afterwards. A factory reset is the fallback and it is not free: routing, DHCP and firewall settings vanish, and the wireless SSID and passphrase go back to the printed defaults.
As part of 10.0.0.0/8, 10.5.100.1 is private and not routable on the public internet; the block's 255.0.0.0 mask spans 16,777,216 addresses, and any network is free to reuse them. That abundance is why the range appears in enterprise and campus deployments, ISP-managed CPE, carrier equipment, remote-access pools and orchestrated container environments, always chopped into much smaller working subnets.
Locally the relevant subnet is 10.5.100.0/24: hosts occupy 10.5.100.1 to 10.5.100.254, and 10.5.100.255 carries broadcasts. Sitting at the first usable slot, this address follows the widespread convention of numbering the gateway at the bottom of the range, which is how it typically ends up on a client's network settings screen. Most people looking it up want to sign in to the router, firewall or controller that answers there.
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
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Other documented addresses in 10.5.100.0/24
The 10.5.100.0/24 subnet runs from 10.5.100.1 to 10.5.100.254, with 10.5.100.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
All addresses we cover here
2 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.