192.168.101.72 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.101.72 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.
192.168.101.72 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.
Nothing in the credential record covers 192.168.101.72, so no login pair is stated. Check the device answering at this address for its own defaults, typically printed on a sticker on the underside or back. Where the equipment was supplied by an internet provider, the credentials are often unique per unit and listed in the account portal or welcome pack.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.101.72 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 192.168.101.72, 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
A forgotten password generally means a factory reset, done by holding the reset button until the status lights cycle. This is destructive to configuration: any customised subnet numbering, reservations and routing choices are lost and the device returns to its shipped defaults, with the Wi-Fi name and password reverting to the label values and all clients needing to reconnect.
192.168.101.72 is drawn from 192.168.0.0/16, the private block with netmask 255.255.0.0 and 65,536 addresses. Because it is the consumer range that nearly all home routers, mobile hotspots and small office access points default into, the same addresses reappear independently on countless separate networks with no relationship between them.
The specific subnet is 192.168.101.0/24, distinct from the more heavily used 192.168.100.0/24 next to it. Hosts run from 192.168.101.1 to 192.168.101.254, and 192.168.101.255 is the broadcast address. Host 72 is a mid-range position rather than a gateway slot. This subnet appears less frequently in practice, with 87 other addresses in it documented here, so an address in it often signals a network where someone chose the numbering deliberately rather than accepting a factory default.
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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OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
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Other documented addresses in 192.168.101.0/24
The 192.168.101.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.101.1 to 192.168.101.254, with 192.168.101.255 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
88 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.