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Blindly assuming .1 is your router is a bad idea. I've seen cases when it all started with a single uber-host at .1 which does routing, DNS, DHCP, mail, and internal web server; and later on the routing part was moved to a separate device with its own IP.

Also, well-known IPs, and 192.168.0.1 in particular, should just be avoided. You don't want IP conflict in your network just because someone plugged in unconfigure device!

Huh. I typically do middle of the subnet. Static addresses below it and dynamic addresses above it. I think it's how the first datacenter I worked at back in the Pleistocene did it and I just kept the habit.

I've had several ISP routers come with .254 as the default IP, this that's the gateway.

FWIW I avoid .1 and .254 as they are too common. If some router-specific malware is going to try target the most common denominator, it'd be these.