192.168.0.189 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.0.189 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.
192.168.0.189 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 are documented for this address, and guessing one would be misleading since any device can hold it. If the address does belong to something with a login page, read the defaults off the label on the device's underside or rear panel, or from the quick-start guide. Equipment supplied by an internet provider often has its own credentials printed on a separate card.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.0.189 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 192.168.0.189, 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 nothing on the label works, the credentials were changed at some point. A pinhole reset button held for roughly ten to thirty seconds while powered on restores factory settings, but everything configured since setup goes with it: port forwarding, DHCP reservations, parental controls and any custom Wi-Fi name and password, which revert to the values shown on the label.
192.168.0.189 sits inside 192.168.0.0/16, the RFC 1918 range set aside for private use with a netmask of 255.255.0.0 and 65,536 addresses. Because this block is where most consumer gateways live, the address is reachable only from within whatever local network happens to use it — it is never routed across the public internet, and countless unrelated networks reuse it at the same moment.
Within that block the address falls in the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, whose usable hosts run from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254 with 192.168.0.255 reserved as the broadcast address. Host number 189 sits high in the range, well away from the low numbers gateways usually take, so it is far more often a DHCP-assigned client — a laptop, printer, camera or streaming box — than the router itself. Most people arriving here are trying to work out which device on their network answered at this address.
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.