192.168.100.79 router login

http://192.168.100.79 ↗

To open the admin panel, type 192.168.100.79 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.

192.168.100.79 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 credential pair is on record for 192.168.100.79. Because private addressing carries no vendor information, there is no way to infer a login from the number alone, and guessing wastes attempts against devices that may lock out after a few failures. Establish which device holds the address, then read its defaults from the device: printed on the case, listed on the packaging insert, or given in the manual for that exact model. Provider-supplied hardware normally uses credentials documented by the provider.

How to log in to your router

  1. Type 192.168.100.79 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 192.168.100.79, 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

If you cannot get in, look for a route that preserves configuration first — an app-based recovery, an administrator account you have not tried, or a wired connection that avoids a wireless fault. A factory reset works but is expensive: it clears everything the device has been taught, including network settings, user accounts, schedules and any pairing with other equipment, and afterwards the device answers only to its printed defaults. The mechanism is usually a recessed button held while powered, but the required hold time and the confirming indicator pattern vary by hardware, so use that model's documentation.

192.168.100.79 is one address out of the 65,536 in 192.168.0.0/16, the RFC 1918 range used with the netmask 255.255.0.0. This is the consumer block: nearly every home router, mobile hotspot and small office access point ships a default gateway inside it, which is why it is the range most people encounter. Because private space is reusable, the address exists on countless separate networks at the same time and describes a host position rather than any real-world entity.

Its /24 is 192.168.100.0/24, with usable addresses from 192.168.100.1 to 192.168.100.254 and 192.168.100.255 handling broadcast. Position 79 sits below the point where many routers open their DHCP pool and above the handful of low numbers usually claimed by infrastructure. Depending on how the network was configured, it may be a static address given to a device an administrator wanted to find reliably, or an ordinary lease from a pool that starts nearer the bottom of the range.

Anyone reading this has almost certainly encountered the address on their own network — in a lease table, an ARP listing or an application's settings — and wants to know what it is and how to reach its interface.

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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OrgAbuseEmail: 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.