Mikogo is a free software for online meetings. The philosophy being you can have online meetings by sharing your desktop.

I tried it and so far have had pretty bad results with it. With 2-3 meetings I have had with mikogo, although the speed was pretty good, the frequency of disconnection was very high. It is even more frustrating if you are trying to remote control someone to help them out. They get the impression that you dont know what you are doing. A troubled person looking for support is already at the brink of anger, multiple requests for joining different meetings, because the connection keeps dropping is just icing on the bad cake.

The software has some pretty good features, but seems to be lacking in the most important aspect – constant connection till the meeting is done. Like when asking someone to join a meeting, they are asked to download an exe – doesnt generate a lot of trust in the users.

Uninstalled for now.

I have been using yuuguu with quite success although the speeds for mikogo did look faster than yuuguu. I think with the promise Mikogo presents, its fair to say that it can do better and hopefully the next version addresses some of these problems.