10.5.49.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.5.49.1 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.
10.5.49.1 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 documented for 10.5.49.1, and none is guessed here. An IP address does not determine credentials; the device answering on it does, and very different equipment uses this address on different networks. Check the label on the device itself, where defaults are commonly printed alongside the serial number and the default wireless key, then the model's own manual. On ISP-supplied or company-managed hardware the sign-in details are often unique per unit or changed during provisioning, so the provider's documentation or your network administrator is the reliable source.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.5.49.1 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 10.5.49.1, 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 login page loads but credentials are rejected, exhaust the printed and documented options before resetting anything. Because no specific model is known to answer on this address, no single reset procedure applies; most equipment uses a recessed button held for several seconds while powered on, but confirm the method in the model's own manual. A factory reset is not free: it clears wireless names and keys, port forwarding, static leases, firewall rules and any ISP-specific provisioning, and on managed or corporate equipment it can take the segment offline until an administrator reconfigures it.
10.5.49.1 is a private IPv4 address drawn from 10.0.0.0/8, the largest of the three RFC 1918 ranges, carrying a netmask of 255.0.0.0 and covering 16,777,216 addresses. Because private space is unallocated on the public internet, no owner, operator, ISP or location can be attached to it: the same address is in use simultaneously on countless unrelated networks, and a public lookup will never resolve it to a registrant. The /8 is common in corporate and campus networks, ISP-managed CPE, carrier-grade equipment, VPN address pools and container or orchestration networks, where it is almost always subnetted far below /8.
In practice the address sits inside a much smaller segment, most often 10.5.49.0/24, which spans 10.5.49.1 through 10.5.49.254 with 10.5.49.255 reserved for broadcast. 10.5.49.1 is the first usable host in that range, and the first usable address is a conventional place for a router, firewall or layer 3 switch interface — a convention rather than a requirement. Five other addresses in this /24 are documented here.
Most people reaching this address are trying to open a management interface on a network they are already attached to, commonly to review connected clients, change wireless settings, or forward a port.
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 10.5.49.0/24
The 10.5.49.0/24 subnet runs from 10.5.49.1 to 10.5.49.254, with 10.5.49.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
All addresses we cover here
6 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.