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Does each provider have their own? Most of the ones I’ve had your local network was 192.168.0.1, but my recent one is 10.0.0.1.
It’s all just modem access I’m guessing in the end and they can choose mostly what they want?
127.0.0.1 is a special IP address that loops back to the device itself.
For local area networks there are 3 groups of private IPv4 address spaces
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
Basically you can use any address range in any of those 3 ranges, ones in the 192.168.x.y block have been pretty common for home routers for a while.
Normally you can change the address ranges set in the router if there's a particular range you want to use.