192.168.123.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.123.1 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.
192.168.123.1 router passwords
One default username and password pair has been reported for devices answering on 192.168.123.1.
| Username / Password | Percentage |
|---|---|
| blank / blank | 100% |
What has been reported for 192.168.123.1 is that no credentials are required: every submission describes the administration interface as opening without a username or password. Treat that as a description of how some devices on this address behave, not a guarantee, and treat it as a reason to set a password rather than leave one absent. If your device does present a login box instead, no default pair is documented for it, so read the label on the underside or rear of the unit, or the model's manual, rather than guessing.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.123.1 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 192.168.123.1, 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
Resetting a device that acts as the gateway is more disruptive than resetting a client. Along with the administration password, a reset discards the Wi-Fi network name and key, PPPoE or connection credentials supplied by the line provider, DHCP reservations, firewall and port-forwarding rules and any custom subnet choice, which may itself be why the network uses .123 at present. The usual method is a recessed button held for several seconds with the unit powered on. No vendor is documented for this address, so check the device's own manual for the hold time and the indicator behaviour that confirms it worked.
192.168.123.0/24 is a less common choice of home subnet than the familiar .0 or .1 variants. Equipment designers sometimes pick an unusual third octet deliberately, because it lowers the odds of a clash when one router ends up plugged in behind another that already uses a more predictable range. That design habit is the main reason an address in the .123 subnet turns up on a network at all.
The address itself lives in 192.168.0.0/16, the private range carrying a 255.255.0.0 netmask and 65,536 addresses, and the range most consumer gateways draw from. Inside its own subnet the usable hosts span 192.168.123.1 to 192.168.123.254, with 192.168.123.255 held for broadcast. Position 1 is the first usable slot and the conventional home for a gateway, so a device answering here is very likely routing traffic for the segment rather than merely sitting on it. Eleven further addresses in this subnet are documented elsewhere.
People typically look this address up after typing it into a browser and either reaching an unfamiliar administration screen or getting nothing back at all.
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
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OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: ICANN
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
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Other documented addresses in 192.168.123.0/24
The 192.168.123.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.123.1 to 192.168.123.254, with 192.168.123.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
All addresses we cover here
12 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.