192.168.1.45 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.1.45 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.
192.168.1.45 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 is recorded for 192.168.1.45. This point is worth stressing on such a widely used subnet, because credentials circulated for other addresses in 192.168.1.0/24 have nothing to do with whatever holds this particular lease.
Establish which device it is, then use that device's own defaults: they are usually printed on a label on the base or back panel, included on the setup card in the box, or published in the manual for the exact model. Provider-supplied equipment normally has its credentials listed in the provider's support documentation.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.1.45 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 192.168.1.45, 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
For a device sitting in the DHCP range, a factory reset is rarely the right first move — restarting it, or renewing its lease, resolves most cases where it stops responding at 192.168.1.45. Reserve the reset for a genuine lockout, and understand that it clears the entire configuration: saved network credentials, pairings, account links, custom settings and any reservation that kept the address stable.
Since no hardware is documented for this address, the general procedure applies: with power connected, press and hold the recessed reset button for ten to thirty seconds, then let the device restart on its own.
192.168.1.45 belongs to 192.168.0.0/16, the consumer block — 65,536 addresses under netmask 255.255.0.0, and the range behind the default gateway of nearly every home router, mobile hotspot and small office access point. Its ubiquity is precisely why it means so little as an identifier: the address is private, unallocated to any organisation, and simultaneously in use on an enormous number of separate networks.
The subnet is 192.168.1.0/24, spanning usable hosts 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 with broadcast at 192.168.1.255. This is the most heavily used private /24 in home networking, which makes the distinction between the gateway and everything else worth stating plainly: 192.168.1.45 is not in the low position a router would normally take. Host 45 falls in the block many routers reserve for automatic leases, so the address usually points at an ordinary connected device — a phone, laptop, printer, streaming box or camera.
The common reason for looking this up is spotting 192.168.1.45 on a list of attached devices and wanting to confirm it is something familiar rather than an unexpected guest.
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
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Other documented addresses in 192.168.1.0/24
The 192.168.1.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254, with 192.168.1.255 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
255 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.