The following screenshot was taken Today at 9:00 p.m. (CET) and was edited, because servers listing takes two screens with my screen resolution:
Pic. 1: As you can see there are 30 servers online, 25 of them are passworded (83%) and 5 are not (17%). All of those 5 servers have a ping greater than 200 ms.
I was wanted to play a MP game, and found that there was absolutely zero servers were available with ping less than 200ms and password OFF. Seriously ED? I really like this sim and it's really great. I also like to play with people over the Internet, but such things like this shows us how how much is it needed to have a free dedicated server software, which is allows players to freely setup their own server without buying the game license and having a computer with a video card and monitor (non-GUI).