192.168.100.42 router login

http://192.168.100.42 ↗

To open the admin panel, type 192.168.100.42 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.

192.168.100.42 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 credential pair is recorded for 192.168.100.42, so this page will not offer one. Guessing at logins for management-style subnets is particularly unhelpful, because the equipment involved varies enormously.

Where a sign-in prompt appears, the defaults are a property of that particular unit. Look for them on the printed label attached to the case, on the card packed with the hardware, or in the manual for the precise model. When the equipment was installed by an internet provider, the provider's documentation, installation paperwork or support account is normally the authoritative source, and in some cases only the provider holds the administrative account at all.

How to log in to your router

  1. Type 192.168.100.42 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.

  2. If the browser reports that it cannot reach 192.168.100.42, 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".

  3. 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

Resetting equipment that carries a service connection is not a neutral action. A factory reset discards provisioning details, authentication settings for the line, firewall and routing configuration, and any diagnostic history, and provider-managed hardware may need to be re-provisioned remotely before it will pass traffic again.

Try a power cycle and a check of the physical cabling first. If a reset is unavoidable and no vendor is known for this address, follow the procedure in your own device's manual — usually a pinhole button held while powered — and be prepared for the device to come back on a different address rather than at 192.168.100.42.

192.168.100.42 is private space from 192.168.0.0/16, the block with netmask 255.255.0.0 and 65,536 addresses. This is the consumer range: home routers, travel hotspots and small office access points overwhelmingly default into it, which is why it turns up more than the other two RFC 1918 blocks combined in everyday use. It is also why the address is meaningless as an identifier — it is unallocated, unroutable across the public internet, and in simultaneous use on an enormous number of unrelated networks.

The enclosing subnet is 192.168.100.0/24, usable from 192.168.100.1 to 192.168.100.254 with 192.168.100.255 reserved for broadcast. The 192.168.100.x range has a particular reputation: it is frequently used for the diagnostic or management side of modems and terminal equipment, kept separate from the ordinary router LAN so that status pages remain reachable even when the routed side is misconfigured. Host position 42, however, is not a gateway position. It sits in the middle of the range, where dynamically assigned clients and secondary appliances normally end up.

Anyone searching for this address has usually found it in a device list, a modem status page or a scan result, and wants to establish what is listening there.

Block192.168.0.0/16
Netmask255.255.0.0
Subnet192.168.100.0/24
Usable192.168.100.1 – 192.168.100.254

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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OrgTechName: ICANN
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
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Other documented addresses in 192.168.100.0/24

The 192.168.100.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.100.1 to 192.168.100.254, with 192.168.100.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.

Most looked up in this subnet

192.168.100.4 192.168.100.1 192.168.100.5 192.168.100.3 192.168.100.6 192.168.100.2 192.168.100.7 192.168.100.8

All addresses we cover here
192.168.100.1 192.168.100.2 192.168.100.3 192.168.100.4 192.168.100.5 192.168.100.6 192.168.100.7 192.168.100.8 192.168.100.9 192.168.100.10 192.168.100.11 192.168.100.12 192.168.100.13 192.168.100.14 192.168.100.15 192.168.100.16 192.168.100.17 192.168.100.18 192.168.100.19 192.168.100.20 192.168.100.21 192.168.100.22 192.168.100.23 192.168.100.24 192.168.100.25 192.168.100.26 192.168.100.27 192.168.100.29 192.168.100.32 192.168.100.33 192.168.100.34 192.168.100.36 192.168.100.37 192.168.100.39 192.168.100.40 192.168.100.47 192.168.100.52 192.168.100.53 192.168.100.54 192.168.100.56 192.168.100.57 192.168.100.58 192.168.100.62 192.168.100.68 192.168.100.72 192.168.100.75 192.168.100.76 192.168.100.81 192.168.100.83 192.168.100.99 192.168.100.102 192.168.100.104 192.168.100.117 192.168.100.133 192.168.100.136 192.168.100.141 192.168.100.156 192.168.100.164 192.168.100.178 192.168.100.200

255 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.