Whatever, p2p, private, simple and silvester individual servers created by anyone, would be good, something like yeah, it's a bad example but kaillera does, simulates 2 players side by side, that way any two players game can be played online. I suppose that just throwing out something basic like this wouldn't be that time consuming to do.

About the fiber optics thing, playing with my friend on the same city is fine. Most people will try to do that.

Ok calling it basic is pretty much ridiculous Only the synchronization of 2 machines over the internet doing something as complex as ps2 emulation is scary.