Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25391954-20140906153606/@comment-25173123-20140907153500

I am assuming it isn't happening with all your games but is happening with more then just Dark Souls?

My first thoughts are you don't have a dedicated i.p. address and your provider is sometimes pushing down a private IP address. This happens to me often and I simply have to reset my router until it drops a good i.p. address for me.

A private i.p. address will still allow you to have access to the internet but will cause issues with some applications which need a more direct transfer of information, and XBL will appear to connect and disconnect on you depending on what it is trying to do at the time.

If you check your router and see an i.p. address within the 10.x.x.x range, 192.168.x.x or 172.16.x.x. then recommend you keep resetting it until you get an i.p. that isn't falling within this range.

And though I haven't seen it be an issue with Dark Souls (more so BF3) you might need to forward some ports. You can check out this link to help you figure out what ports might need to be forwarded. Again, this last part is less likely the issue if you are only now having issues and have not seen issues in the past. And if you have 2 Xboxes then you might need to turn off DNS features to resolve one of them not eing able to be online while port forwarding. I have had up to 3 Xbox 360 on my router at once when properly setup.

I am usually only good at solving my own issues and less skilled in trying to explain a fix over the internet or phone. Friends always ask me just to come over and fix their issue instead of trying to explain it. Oh well....

Hope this is the issue you are having... it is the most likely candidate for XBL connection issues andalso the easiest to resolve. (though router resets could always push down another bad i.p. and you might have to do it again?) Good luck.