Since the year 2000, the Joint European Torus (JET) nuclear fusion experiment is operated under the auspices of the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) with direct involvement of researchers of all major European fusion research laboratories in JET experiments. Scientists from laboratories outside JET can participate in JET Task Force work personally by traveling to the JET site. However, this is not always possible for the entire time interval needed to prepare and execute experiments and analyze the results. For this reason a large effort has been made to facilitate Remote Participation (RP) in EFDA-JET using a number of mainly Internet-based techniques [1,2] This system is operational since the start of experimental campaigns in May 2000. The present paper gives a first summary of experience with remote participation at JET from a user's point of view. The present paper begins with a review of requirements for remote participation at the various aspects of JET experimentation, followed by a short discussion of the scope of the existing tools. A user poll has been performed to assess the experience physicists have made so far, the results are summarised. The paper concludes with a discussion of further development of the remote participation infrastructure for JET and implications for joint collaborative work on all European fusion experiments under EFDA.