Starlink Default Router Passwords

Starlink is SpaceX’s satellite internet service, supplied with its own Wi-Fi router.

Point a browser at whatever your computer reports as its default gateway. On Windows that is the Default Gateway line from ipconfig; on macOS, Network settings shows it under the active connection. Starlink says its router has no administrator portal and no default password. Everything is set in the Starlink app: the Wi-Fi name and password, rebooting and factory reset. A new or reset router broadcasts an open network called STARLINK until you set a password in the app.

None of them ask for a username; the field is left empty. On 5 entries there is no factory password; it is set when the device is first set up. 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.

Unlike most routers, the Starlink router has no settings page in a browser. Starlink manages it only through the Starlink app, on a phone connected to its Wi-Fi. The app handles the Wi-Fi name and password, separate 2.4 and 5 GHz names, DNS, the local network range, bypass mode and pausing devices. It does not offer port forwarding or MAC filtering.

The easiest way is in the app: Settings, Router, Factory Reset. Without the app:

• Gen 3 (Router 3): push a paperclip into the reset button under the LAN port cover on the back until the front light blinks.
• Gen 2: power it off and on six times, 2 to 3 seconds apart, until the white light on the bottom comes on.
• Gen 1: press the pin button on the bottom until the light turns blue, then solid white.
• Router Mini: press the button on the back until the front light blinks, then slowly blinks white.
• Starlink Mini: press the reset icon on the back until it clicks, and hold for 3 seconds.

A router in bypass mode needs this manual reset to come out of it.

There is a recessed reset button on the back or underneath that needs a straightened paperclip. Hold it in for thirty seconds with the unit powered on. Let go when the lights change pattern, and give it a couple of minutes to come back up.

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.