This sadly funny video shows why you may want to consider setting the time for your web meeting to start 15 minutes before the formal meeting is scheduled to begin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bduokoNN8.
The folks at Glance (www.Glance.net) offer an alternative, “instant on” web meeting tool that also helps to address the problem so wonderfully articulated in the video.
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I want to suggest you try http://www.showdocument.com – its an alternative tool for glance that allows document sharing and web meeting in real-time. all the participants in the session see each others’ drawing, highlights, etc. It is free and requires no installation.
Josh
GoMeetNow guarantees connection and they say the attendees face no issues when connecting. Have a look at here http://www.gomeetnow.com/