Connecting 2 360s in different states

Hi,

I recently got a 360 to play against my brother who lives in a different state. Is it possbile to do this with LIVE or would we have to network our consoles another way? I'm not exactly sure how LIVE works, but I'd like to avoid having to go through their servers. Ideally, I'd like to connect just our 2 consoles together. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Best bet is to get a 121232345345 foot long ethernet cable and play system link with him.

Other than that? Both of you need to get live, this isn't a choice either.

Then you can play together via whatever methods are available for the game over live.

You could play with other people too...