192.168.0.252 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.0.252 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.
192.168.0.252 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.
There is no recorded default login for 192.168.0.252, and guessing one would be misleading. Because addresses near the top of a /24 are usually assigned deliberately, whatever answers here may already have had its password changed during setup. The device's own label is the authoritative source; consumer equipment almost always prints the default account, and often a unique per-unit password, on a sticker. The model's manual or the support site for that specific product is the next place to check.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.0.252 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 192.168.0.252, 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
Before resetting, try the obvious recovery routes: a password reset link on the login page, a companion mobile app tied to an email account, or credentials saved in a browser or password manager. A factory reset returns the device to shipped defaults, which means losing wireless settings, port forwarding, firewall rules and the static configuration that put it at 192.168.0.252 in the first place. Expect it to reappear on a different address afterwards. As no vendor is documented for this address, use the reset steps published for your exact model.
192.168.0.252 is part of 192.168.0.0/16, the range RFC 1918 set aside for private use and the one consumer equipment overwhelmingly defaults into. Its 65,536 addresses sit behind a 255.255.0.0 netmask, though in practice almost every home network uses only a single /24 slice of it.
That slice here is 192.168.0.0/24: hosts from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254, broadcast at 192.168.0.255. Position 252 is near the very top of the usable range, three addresses below the last host. Network administrators frequently carve the tail end of a /24 out of the DHCP pool and use it for fixed assignments, precisely because leases are handed out from the lower end. Secondary routers, access points, printers, NAS units and management interfaces often end up here for exactly that reason.
This subnet is heavily documented, with 249 other addresses recorded, which reflects how common the layout is rather than anything about who uses it. People arriving at 192.168.0.252 have typically seen it in a DHCP reservation table, a device configuration screen or a scan, and want to know whether it is a router. On most networks it is not: the gateway sits at 192.168.0.1, occasionally at 192.168.0.254.
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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OrgAbuseName: ICANN
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: 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.