Originally posted here by RoadClosed
Thats kind of true ITG, the older games used IPX (non-routable) protocol and the Cable was insecure. I used to find games all the time. Join them piss people off etc.

Most games you have to run a server for more than two people but they usually ship with. I used to have a really really long cat5 I tossed over to my neighbor when we played but it has to be a crossover or be fed into an uplink port on a switch or hub.
IPX is routable protocol. Just not over the Internet as it's only a LAN protocol. If you really wanted to look into it, you could get cable routers that support VPN and create site-to-site VPNs amongst you all. Not sure if games will like that, but it might work. You might need to get DNS servers (or host file entries) setup if you want to browse each other's computers by name rather than IP all the time. If you have VPN capable routers, or the cash to buy one, it'd be a fun thing to try.