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🔐172.16.0.1 - Admin Login

172.16.0.1 admin interface

To access your router admin interface, type http://172.16.0.1 into the browser's url field and press enter.

You can also click the following button to open the admin interface

🔐 Open http://172.16.0.1

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Default login details for 172.16.0.1
The most common combinations of username/password

Username Password How common
public public 100.0%

Login instructions for 172.16.0.1

These login instructions are quite generic, and if you know which router brand you have, we recommend that you visit the Router Login instructions page to get the specific instructions.
  1. Make sure you are connected to the network of your modem/router.
  2. Open http://172.16.0.1 in your web browser.
  3. Enter the username and password for your router, if you don't know them you can try the above common defaults, otherwise check from the Password lookup page.

http://172.16.0.1 returns a "site cannot be reached" page or other error

This can mean several things, please see the troubleshooting section below

Problems connecting to 172.16.0.1

If you have trouble connecting to your router/modem at 172.16.0.1 you can check the following

Make sure you are connected to the network

Make sure youre device is connected to the router, either by ethernet cable or over WiFi.

Check that your router is running

Ensure that the router is plugged in and turned on, lights should be lit or blinking depending on your make and model.

Make sure your router's ip address is actually 172.16.0.1

If your router's IP is something other than 172.16.0.1 you wont be able to reach it there. Check our router detector at the top of the page, or go to whatsmyrouterip.com to see what their tool says.

Make sure you have spelled the IP correctly and not e.g. 172.16.0.l or 172.16.O.1

IP addresses will only contain numbers 1-9 and periods .. It is quite common that people misread 0 for O and 1 for I or l when they type the address.

What is the 172.16.0.1 address?

The IP address 172.16.0.1 belongs to an address range that has been reserved for private networks. Every device that connects to your home network will get a similar address, with the last digit differing.

The devices connected to your home network will then use your router and the 172.16.0.1 as the default gateway to access the internet, and your router will handle everything to tie together your public IP address to your home network.

The IP address ranges that are reserved for private networks are the following

  1. 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
  2. 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
  3. 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255

Most commonly used is the 192.*-range, sometimes the 10.*-range, and not so often the 172.*-range. If you want to learn more about IP addresses check out our article What Is an IP Address and Why Is It Important?

172.16.0.1 is common with Top Global & Bellnet routers

Out of all the IP adresses possible in the private network range, 172.16.0.1 has been chosen by 2 manufacturers as the most common IP address. This makes it easy for both professionals and common people to remember the address when needing to work with routers, it is as simple as typing 172.16.0.1 into the address bar of the browser.

Among the bigger manufacturers to use 172.16.0.1 as the default IP address are: Top Global and Bellnet. You should note however that certain models might still use different addresses than the common ones, so it is always wise to check the manual as well.

Routers that use 172.16.0.1 as their default IP address

Model Username Password
Bellnet MB7900 public public
Top Global MB6800 public public
Top Global 3G Phoebus (MB6000) public public
Top Global MB8000 public public