I have used Direcway quite a bit. It is just fine for browsing & downloading, but it is no good for latency sensitive operations. This means online "twitch" games, VOIP, and VPN applications are pretty much unusable.
That was not the claim. The claim was that the UN gets a "cut" of the Oil-for-food money. The claim was that this amounts to more than the US pays in dues and therefor the UN has a financial interest in prolonging the current situation.