192.168.40.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 192.168.40.1 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.
192.168.40.1 router passwords
One default username and password pair has been reported for devices answering on 192.168.40.1.
| Username / Password | Percentage |
|---|---|
| admin / motorola | 100% |
The recorded default for 192.168.40.1 is the username admin with the password motorola, which represents every report gathered for this address. A password string of that kind does not confirm what hardware you are facing, so do not assume a manufacturer from it. Try the pair, and if the login page refuses it, fall back to the credentials printed on the device label.
How to log in to your router
Type 192.168.40.1 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 192.168.40.1, 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
When neither the recorded pair nor anything you remember gets you in, holding the reset button for roughly thirty seconds returns the unit to factory state. That is a genuine loss: bridging or PPPoE details, port forwards and DHCP reservations all vanish, and the Wi-Fi name and key revert to the label values, so re-provisioning the whole network follows.
192.168.40.1 lies within 192.168.0.0/16, the private allocation defined in RFC 1918, which uses the netmask 255.255.0.0 and covers 65,536 addresses. It is the consumer block, and the range in which most household and small-office gateways are configured out of the box. Its subnet here is 192.168.40.0/24, where hosts run from 192.168.40.1 to 192.168.40.254 and 192.168.40.255 serves as broadcast.
What makes this one different from most addresses in the block is its position: .1 is the classic first-usable slot, the one routers and firewalls habitually claim for themselves. An address at this position is therefore likely to be the gateway for its segment and to expose a web-based administration interface. Visitors normally want to open that interface to change wireless settings, inspect connected clients or adjust the firewall.
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
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: ICANN
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: ICANN
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA-IP-ARIN
Other documented addresses in 192.168.40.0/24
The 192.168.40.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.40.1 to 192.168.40.254, with 192.168.40.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
All addresses we cover here
22 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.