Router Checker

Find the address that opens your router's settings, what its login actually is, what its lights mean and how to reset it safely. Every answer here comes from the manufacturer's own documentation, and each page shows you the source.

Browse by what kind of router you have

• Broadband hubs from providersBT, Sky, Virgin Media and the rest — the hub that arrived in the box — 27 models
• Routers and mesh systems you boughtBought separately from a shop rather than supplied by a provider — 7 models
• Business and prosumer kitDrayTek, ASUS and other equipment specified for an office — 27 models

Browse by make

• Aruba (HPE)1 model
• ASUS1 model
• BT6 models
• Cisco2 models
• Cradlepoint1 model
• DrayTek6 models
• EE2 models
• Fortinet2 models
• Google2 models
• Hyperoptic1 model
• Cisco Meraki2 models
• MikroTik2 models
• Netgate1 model
• NOW Broadband1 model
• Openreach1 model
• Peplink1 model
• Plusnet2 models
• Ruckus1 model
• Sky4 models
• Sophos1 model
• TalkTalk3 models
• Teltonika2 models
• TP-Link4 models
• Ubiquiti3 models
• Virgin Media4 models
• Vodafone2 models
• WatchGuard1 model
• Zen Internet1 model
• Zyxel1 model

Know the address but not the router?

If all you have is the number someone told you to type into a browser, start here.

• 192.168.1.120 routers use this address
• 192.168.0.111 routers use this address
• 192.168.1.25410 routers use this address
• 192.168.100.14 routers use this address
• 192.168.1.992 routers use this address
• 192.168.128.12 routers use this address
• 192.168.68.12 routers use this address
• 192.168.86.12 routers use this address
• 192.168.88.12 routers use this address
• 10.0.1.11 router uses this address
• 172.16.16.161 router uses this address
• 192.168.178.11 router uses this address
• 192.168.50.11 router uses this address

Guides

• The 30-30-30 router reset is wrong, and here is what each manufacturer actually saysThe 30-30-30 reset came from a specific class of old hardware and does not apply to modern routers. Here are the hold times each manufacturer actually documents.
• How to find your router's address when you do not know what router you haveFour ways to find the address that opens your router's settings page, including how to read it off the device you are already using.
• What the lights on your router are telling youRouter status lights follow a small number of patterns across every make. Here is how to read them, and which ones mean the fault is not in your house.
• Locked out of your router: what actually works, by makeSome routers let you back in without losing your settings. Others genuinely cannot be recovered. Here is which is which, and what to do in each case.
• Modem mode and router mode: what changes, and why your settings page movesWhat modem mode actually does, why it changes the address you use to reach your hub, and when it is worth turning on.

How this is put together

Two rules govern everything here. We only publish a model page once we can point at the manufacturer's own documentation for it, and every page lists what we used. And where a router's password is unique to the individual unit, we say so rather than printing a value — the password lists that appear to have a single answer for every make have usually taken one device's label and republished it as a universal default.

Where we have not been able to verify something, the page says that too, instead of filling the gap with a plausible guess.