192.168.0.0/16 is the private range most home routers use

What it means

192.168.0.0/16 is the smallest RFC 1918 private range and the default on most home routers, which usually take 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 for themselves and hand the rest to your devices.

RFC 1918 sets aside three ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16) for networks that are not directly on the internet. Your router hands these out to your phone, laptop and TV, and every home can reuse the same numbers because they are never routed between networks.

When a device with a private address opens a website, the router rewrites the request so it comes from the router’s one public address (network address translation, NAT). That public address is what the Truth Check on our home page shows; the private one stays inside your network.

What to do

• To see the address websites see, open the Truth Check from the same device.
• Your router’s own admin page is usually at the first address in the range, such as 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 — check the label on the router or its manual.
• A private address on a device does not mean anything is wrong.

Router addresses in this block

192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.254, 192.168.100.1 are common router admin addresses inside this range. Yours is printed on the router or in its manual; you can only reach it from your own network, and we never offer a login page for it.

Sources

1. IANA IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry (CC0) · checked 2 Nov 2026
2. RFC 1918