Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25391954-20140906153606/@comment-25173123-20140908165730

When you get to the router you will likely be in the Status page. (if not then try and find a link to it on your menu) On that page you should find an area that says WAN. This area should have a "PPPoE Connection" line and also an "IP Address" it is this address in the WAN that you want to identify.

The 192 address is for your LAN which really just identifies the router itself.

Now it should give you an option to "disconnect" and then "reconnect", this will reset your ip address and likely search for a fresh address to use.

While you are there check how long you have been connected to the current address it should be beside something that says something like "Connected time so far".

I make a habit to check my router every day for security verification and monitor my kids activity on their devices.

I never turn my router off and usually it's ip address will stay stable for weeks. But like this afternoon we had a power outage in the area for awhile and obviously this resets my router. (and of course everyone in the area) so when power came back on it took me about 10 resets to get an ip address assigned that wasn't a private address assigned by my internet service provider.

Dark Souls does have a patch that is needed for you to play online properly. I will check my Xbox later and see what it should look like in the files? If you didn't get it when trying to connect then something is wrong. You might have to delete your game and redownload it. (note: never a good idea to download over a previous version as it can sometimes cause any issues with patches to continue with new download. Always delete and then redownload via your history.)

Hope that helps... but you really should learn about your connections and router if nothing else to be able to trouble shoot issues like this on your own next time. Just Google your router and you will find plenty of info on how to do things to set it up properly.

Good luck.