192.168.42.1 router login

http://192.168.42.1 ↗ blank / Administrator100%

To open the admin panel, type 192.168.42.1 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.

192.168.42.1 router passwords

One default username and password pair has been reported for devices answering on 192.168.42.1.

Username / Password Percentage
blank / Administrator 100%

One default is reported for this address, with no username entered at all and the password Administrator, accounting for all documented sightings. Leave the username field empty and enter that password exactly, respecting the capital A. If the prompt refuses it, fall back to the credentials printed on the device label or listed in its manual.

How to log in to your router

  1. Type 192.168.42.1 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.

  2. If the browser reports that it cannot reach 192.168.42.1, 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".

  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 the reported default is rejected and no other password is known, a factory reset is the remaining option, normally a recessed button held while the unit is powered on. It returns the device to shipping condition, so custom settings and any tethering or firewall rules are lost, and the Wi-Fi name and password revert to the label values, breaking existing connections.

192.168.42.1 comes from 192.168.0.0/16, the private block consumer equipment relies on, spanning 65,536 addresses under a 255.255.0.0 mask. Its subnet is 192.168.42.0/24, with hosts from 192.168.42.1 to 192.168.42.254 and broadcast on 192.168.42.255. Compared with the busiest consumer ranges this one is sparsely documented, with 33 other addresses on record.

Crucially, the address occupies position 1, the slot conventionally given to the gateway. That makes it a plausible administration address rather than a client, and it is the sort of subnet used by tethering, hotspot and secondary router modes that deliberately avoid clashing with an upstream home network. Most people arriving here are trying to open the management interface, change a wireless password, or work out why their device landed on this range instead of a more familiar one.

Block192.168.0.0/16
Netmask255.255.0.0
Subnet192.168.42.0/24
Usable192.168.42.1 – 192.168.42.254

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
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 192.168.42.0/24

The 192.168.42.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.42.1 to 192.168.42.254, with 192.168.42.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.

All addresses we cover here
192.168.42.0 192.168.42.2 192.168.42.3 192.168.42.4 192.168.42.5 192.168.42.6 192.168.42.7 192.168.42.8 192.168.42.9 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.11 192.168.42.13 192.168.42.14 192.168.42.17 192.168.42.21 192.168.42.23 192.168.42.29 192.168.42.30 192.168.42.31 192.168.42.70 192.168.42.81 192.168.42.82 192.168.42.88 192.168.42.89 192.168.42.98 192.168.42.100 192.168.42.105 192.168.42.108 192.168.42.109 192.168.42.112 192.168.42.129 192.168.42.190 192.168.42.233

34 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.