On: Zoom Alternatives for Longer Meetings?

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Jitsi Meet. They can just paste a url into their browser and that's it.

https://meet.jit.si/

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Jitsi beats everything. I've set up meetings with first-timers and total technophobes by sending a single URL. The UI and performance is no worse than any other contender like Zoom or Teams. Nobody I've connected with using Jitsi had any problems figuring the "intuitive" interface in a few seconds.

The URL can be an ordinary long string or random sequence like

http://meet.jit.si/somerandomplaceontheinternettomeetme

Remember though: meet.jit.si, like other WebRTC video conferencing tools is nothing but a coordination point/SIP, a rendezvous server that then connects you peer-to-peer via the protocol for 1-2-1 calls or a Videobridge for groups. Unlike Teams and Zoom though, you can set up your own, which is a significant security and performance value-add.

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How is jitsi between asia (cn) and europa and us?

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Only ever done one or two US-UK links. Very good results IIRC.

When Jitsi (WebRTC) struggles it seems to do a sensible thing and fall back to preserving good audio but temporarily dropping the video completely.

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Since it is browser based (webrtc), the implementation is mostly browser based. You can expect the same audio/video as you get with google meet or teams, which are using the same tech.

One or one calls should be using direct peer to peer connection thanks to webrtc.

Group calls will be routed by the server, so latency will be an issue depending on the server location.