192.168.5.1 router login

http://192.168.5.1 ↗ admin / sti.admin5100%

To open the admin panel, type 192.168.5.1 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.

192.168.5.1 router passwords

One default username and password pair has been reported for devices answering on 192.168.5.1.

Username / Password Percentage
admin / sti.admin5 100%

One credential pair has been reported for this address: the username admin with the password sti.admin5, which accounts for every sighting recorded so far. That is a narrow sample rather than a manufacturer specification, so treat it as the first thing to try, not a guarantee. Since no vendor is known to ship 192.168.5.1 as a default gateway, there is no single factory login to fall back on. The authoritative source is the device itself: check the label or sticker on its underside or rear, then the printed manual or the ISP's setup documentation. Where an installer or ISP configured the router, the credentials were often changed at handover.

How to log in to your router

  1. Type 192.168.5.1 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 192.168.5.1, 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 login is unknown, first try the sticker, the manual and any ISP account documentation before resorting to a factory reset. A reset is genuinely destructive: it clears the Wi-Fi network name and password, port forwards, DHCP reservations, firewall rules and any PPPoE or ISP login, so collect those details in advance and export a configuration backup if the interface is still reachable. It can also restore the LAN to whatever default the firmware ships with, meaning the router may no longer answer at 192.168.5.1 afterwards. Without a known vendor, use the general method: with the unit powered on, hold the recessed reset button with a paperclip for roughly ten to thirty seconds until the lights cycle, then let it reboot fully.

192.168.5.1 belongs to 192.168.0.0/16, the private IPv4 range reserved by RFC 1918, which spans 65,536 addresses under the netmask 255.255.0.0. It is the consumer block: nearly every home router, mobile hotspot and small office access point ships a default gateway inside it, which is why it is the range most people encounter. Because the space is private, the address has no owner, registrant, ISP or geographic location, and it is not routable on the public internet — the same number is in use on countless unrelated networks at once.

Within that block the address falls in the 192.168.5.0/24 subnet, whose usable range runs from 192.168.5.1 to 192.168.5.254, with 192.168.5.255 reserved for broadcast. 192.168.5.1 is the first usable host, the position firmware defaults and administrators most often assign to the gateway, so a device answering here is usually the router or firewall for that segment rather than an ordinary client. Around 120 further addresses in the same /24 are documented as being in use.

No specific vendor is known to ship this address as a factory default gateway. It commonly turns up where a LAN has been moved off 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x to avoid an overlap: a second router behind another, a VPN segment, or a separate guest network. Most people looking it up simply want the login page at http://192.168.5.1.

Block192.168.0.0/16
Netmask255.255.0.0
Subnet192.168.5.0/24
Usable192.168.5.1 – 192.168.5.254

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
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OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org
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Other documented addresses in 192.168.5.0/24

The 192.168.5.0/24 subnet runs from 192.168.5.1 to 192.168.5.254, with 192.168.5.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.

Most looked up in this subnet

192.168.5.2 192.168.5.12 192.168.5.220 192.168.5.100 192.168.5.3 192.168.5.118 192.168.5.102 192.168.5.5

All addresses we cover here
192.168.5.0 192.168.5.2 192.168.5.3 192.168.5.4 192.168.5.5 192.168.5.8 192.168.5.9 192.168.5.10 192.168.5.11 192.168.5.12 192.168.5.14 192.168.5.16 192.168.5.17 192.168.5.19 192.168.5.20 192.168.5.26 192.168.5.27 192.168.5.39 192.168.5.50 192.168.5.66 192.168.5.69 192.168.5.70 192.168.5.81 192.168.5.88 192.168.5.92 192.168.5.100 192.168.5.101 192.168.5.102 192.168.5.105 192.168.5.108 192.168.5.109 192.168.5.110 192.168.5.111 192.168.5.113 192.168.5.115 192.168.5.118 192.168.5.120 192.168.5.124 192.168.5.127 192.168.5.136 192.168.5.143 192.168.5.144 192.168.5.150 192.168.5.157 192.168.5.169 192.168.5.172 192.168.5.176 192.168.5.183 192.168.5.184 192.168.5.190 192.168.5.201 192.168.5.205 192.168.5.208 192.168.5.220 192.168.5.225 192.168.5.236 192.168.5.245 192.168.5.250 192.168.5.253 192.168.5.254

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