192.168.1.48 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.1.48 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.
192.168.1.48 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 documented default username and password for 192.168.1.48, and none should be assumed. Sign-in details belong to whatever hardware happens to hold the lease on a given network, not to the numeric address, so a credential pair copied from another site would be a guess.
If the device at this address does present a login page, look for its own defaults on the printed label, commonly on the underside or rear panel, in the quick-start guide, or in the documentation your internet provider supplied for equipment it installed. Where the label has been removed, the model number alone is enough to locate the correct manual.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.1.48 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 192.168.1.48, 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 anything, confirm what actually answers on 192.168.1.48. If it is a client such as a laptop, printer, camera or streaming box, a router reset will not help and access is recovered through that device's own interface or app.
If it does turn out to be the gateway, a factory reset is the last resort rather than the first step. Holding the recessed reset button for roughly ten to thirty seconds is the usual method, and it clears the administrator password along with the Wi-Fi name and key, port forwarding rules, DHCP reservations and any provider-specific settings, so plan on reconfiguring the connection afterwards.
192.168.1.48 sits inside 192.168.0.0/16, the RFC 1918 range reserved with a 255.255.0.0 netmask and 65,536 addresses in total. This is the consumer block: nearly every home router, mobile hotspot and small office access point ships a default gateway somewhere inside it, which is why it is the private range most people run into. Because the space is private, the same address exists simultaneously on millions of unrelated networks and carries no owner, operator or location of its own.
Within that block the address belongs to 192.168.1.0/24, the single most widely used home subnet. Usable hosts run from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254, with 192.168.1.255 reserved as the broadcast address. Position 48 is well inside the range that consumer routers typically hand out by DHCP, and it is not one of the low positions a gateway usually occupies, so a device answering here is far more likely to be a client than the router itself.
Most people arriving at this address have read it off a connected-devices list, a DHCP lease table or an ipconfig output, and want to know whether it is their router. Usually it is not.
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 192.168.1.0/24
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.