192.168.28.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.28.1 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.
192.168.28.1 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 documented for this address, so this page will not name one. The login belongs to whichever device holds the gateway role here. Look for a sticker on the base, back or inside the battery or cover compartment, which is where factory web-interface details are usually printed, and check the manual or the manufacturer's support pages for the model. If the network was set up by an employer or a service provider, the working credentials are more likely held by them than printed on the hardware.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.28.1 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 192.168.28.1, 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
Where the password has been changed and forgotten, holding the recessed reset button for the interval the manual specifies returns the device to factory defaults. Expect to lose the wireless network name and passphrase, any custom subnet numbering, port forwarding and firewall rules, DHCP reservations and connection credentials for the upstream link. On this address in particular, resetting may return the gateway to a stock third octet, so 192.168.28.1 could stop responding afterwards. Save a configuration backup while you still can, and have the upstream connection details to hand before starting.
192.168.28.1 comes from 192.168.0.0/16, the private range defined in RFC 1918, covering 65,536 addresses with a 255.255.0.0 netmask. The block is the one most consumer equipment draws its default gateway from, and because it is private space, identical addresses run in millions of separate networks with no relationship to one another.
The relevant subnet is 192.168.28.0/24: hosts from 192.168.28.1 to 192.168.28.254, broadcast 192.168.28.255. The third octet of 28 is worth noting. Most home routers default to 0, 1, 2 or 100, so a network numbered 28 has usually been configured deliberately, or is a secondary segment such as a guest network, a VPN subnet, a virtual machine network or one of several LANs on a multi-network device.
Ending in .1 places this address at the first usable position, the conventional home for the gateway interface serving the segment. Eleven other addresses in the same /24 already have entries, consistent with an active subnet. Most people looking it up have found it listed as their default gateway and want to open the management interface behind it.
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 192.168.28.0/24
The 192.168.28.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.28.1 to 192.168.28.254, with 192.168.28.255 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.