192.168.0.159 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.0.159 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.
192.168.0.159 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 login is documented for a device at this address, so this page will not name one. If a login screen appears at 192.168.0.159, the shipped user name and password for that hardware are on the sticker on its base or back panel, on the setup card in the box, or in the manual for the exact model. Routers supplied by an ISP often carry a password unique to the unit.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.0.159 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 192.168.0.159, 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 password was changed and forgotten, the reset button restores factory settings, typically after ten to thirty seconds held down. That undoes everything configured since installation, including port forwarding, guest networks, device blocks and DNS choices, and the Wi-Fi name and password go back to the label values. Every phone, laptop and smart device on the network will then need reconnecting with those printed details.
192.168.0.159 lives in 192.168.0.0/16, the private block most people meet in daily life. It holds 65,536 addresses under the netmask 255.255.0.0, and nearly every home router, small office access point and portable hotspot ships a default gateway somewhere inside it. The specific subnet is 192.168.0.0/24, where usable host addresses run from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254 and 192.168.0.255 is reserved for broadcast traffic.
Host position 159 is nowhere near the low numbers routers usually occupy, so on a home network it almost always identifies a leased client: a laptop, phone, television, console or smart-home device that took the next free address from the DHCP pool. People searching for it have generally seen it in a router's device list or in a network scan and want to work out which piece of household equipment 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
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OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: ICANN
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
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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.