192.168.0.12 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.0.12 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.
192.168.0.12 router passwords
One default username and password pair has been reported for devices answering on 192.168.0.12.
| Username / Password | Percentage |
|---|---|
| admin / admin | 100% |
The credential pair most often reported for devices answering on 192.168.0.12 is the username admin with the password admin. Treat that as a starting point rather than a certainty: if it is rejected, the device has its own defaults, and anything already changed by an installer or a previous owner will override it. Change any default that still works.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.0.12 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 192.168.0.12, 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 no password works, look for a recessed reset button and hold it for roughly ten to thirty seconds while the unit is powered on. That returns the device to factory state, which means every custom setting goes: port forwards, DHCP reservations, firewall rules, and the Wi-Fi network name and key revert to whatever is printed on the label. Every connected device must then rejoin.
192.168.0.12 sits in 192.168.0.0/16, the RFC 1918 range with a 255.255.0.0 netmask and 65,536 addresses. Nearly every home router, mobile hotspot and small office access point ships a default gateway inside this block, which is why it is the range most people run into. Because the space is private, the same address exists simultaneously on millions of unrelated networks and carries no owner or location of its own.
Within the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, usable hosts run from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254, with 192.168.0.255 reserved as the broadcast address. Position 12 is well past the low numbers a router usually claims, so on most networks this is a client or a DHCP-assigned device rather than the gateway. Visitors here are typically trying to open a management interface at this address, or working out which machine on their LAN it belongs to.
Whois information for 192.168.0.0/16
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NetRange: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
CIDR: 192.168.0.0/16
NetName: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-CBLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED
NetHandle: NET-192-168-0-0-1
Parent: NET192 (NET-192-0-0-0-0)
NetType: IANA Special Use
OriginAS:
Organization: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
RegDate: 1994-03-15
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/192.168.0.0
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
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 192.168.0.0/24
The 192.168.0.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254, with 192.168.0.255 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
250 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.