bigF - I have hosted web space in the UK that I use for my site - far too difficult for me to work out how to run IIS at home without a static IP !!! - or maybe I'm just too lazy to find out

Modem is a Motorola Surfboard (SB) 6100.
No idea about a HTTP interface I'm afraid !
I plug it into the wall and that's about it - no config changes on the modem itself.
SMS - I'll give it a shot on some sites further afield and post the results.
I use my connection a lot for internet gaming, most of which is within Singapore, so It's not too much of an issue.
To be honest, Singapore's in a bit of a crappy geographical location for internet gaming. EU and US are simply too far away to avoid lag on many games - regardless of connection speed. We seem to have a fairly fast pipe to Japan, but my Japanese isn't up to much
Torrents use multiple peers, so international transfers of torrents isn't a problem.
I'd also bet that, if I tracert most of the IPs I'm leeching from, they're Singapore based anyways........