Is anyone else having a hard time logging in to Xbox Live?

[S.T.A.G.E.]

Goatseye said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Xbox Live as a service is having a hard time putting me onto Xbox Live. I'm just trying to sign into my account, to play single player..not multiplayer and it is making it abundantly clear that this console is depedent upon an online connection just to function.

I always game offline when I'm out of country on vacation. No interwebs necessity.

Yeah, I'm having trouble connecting to XBL as well.

How do you sign back on offline? Do you have to go to setting in the network?