Spark Default Modem Passwords
This page lists 2 confirmed default credentials for Spark equipment, covering 2 models. The pairing you are most likely to need is admin with admin.
Entries are reachable over http. All of these entries use a protocol that sends the password in clear text, so use them on a trusted network and change the password once you are in.
admin2 of 2 entriesadmin2 of 2 entries| Model | Protocol | Access | Username | Password |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMART MODEM (VRV9517UWAC34) | HTTP | Admin | admin | admin |
| SMART MODEM 3 | HTTP | Admin | admin | admin |
About Spark
Spark is New Zealand’s largest broadband provider and supplies its own Smart Modem.
Reaching the login page
The admin page on most Spark units answers at http://192.168.1.254. If that address does not load, the router is whatever your computer lists as its default gateway — ipconfig on Windows or ipconfig getoption en0 router on a Mac will tell you.
Spark Smart Modems sign in with admin and admin, and ask you to choose a new password the first time. The Wi-Fi details on the bottom of the modem are a different password.
What the Spark defaults look like
Every entry uses the username admin. Where one is set, admin comes up most often, on 2 entries. All of them are reached over a protocol that puts the password on the wire in clear text, so work from a machine on the same wired network rather than across the internet, and change the password once you are in.
If the Spark password has already been changed
Push a pin into the hole labelled Reset for 10 to 15 seconds, or use Administration, Restore Factory Defaults in the settings.
The catch with an ISP-supplied unit is that a reset also clears the broadband credentials, and on some lines the router will not reconnect until those are re-entered. Find them before you press anything, or be ready to ring the provider.
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