Playstation 2 Modems

Fellow UG member Infernos put together this great post about a little known part of the Playstation 2's online history.  While I never used the PS2 online via LAN, I did enjoy the Sega Dreamcast's build in 56k modem.  Yep used it so much I bought the Sega keyboard for $20.  Good times.  Many thanks to Infernos!

There were external USB modem for the PlayStation 2 available, in Japan only though. They attached through USB and allowed for 56K connections.
Like demonstrated in this pic below:

And since this stuff isn't that well documented at all, I thought I give it a try and shine a little light on them.

So here we go, as far as I could tell there were 6 of them in total:

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SUNTAC OnlineStation
 

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IO Data P2GATE

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AIWA PV-PS200

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Omron Viaggio ME56PS2

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Buffalo IGM-UB56PS2C
 

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ASCII MODEM USB

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And finally, here's the software (not all of these are games, mind you) that supported these USB Modems:

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Armored Core 2: Another Age
Armored Core 3
Battle Gear 2 (aka Tokyo Road Race)
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001
Chou! Rakushii Internet Tomodachi Nowa
Cyber Jansou
EGBrowser
Eisei Meijin VI
Final Fantasy XI
The Seed
Taikyoku Mahjong: Net de Ron!

The titles that were also released in the West (US and/or Europe) are in bold.
And as you can probably tell - out of those games that made it to the West, only FFXI carried over the online features.  Plus, I think it's safe to say that the online servers for these have been shut down a long time ago.
Well, hope you folks enjoyed this little history lesson Cheers! -Infernos