Slow browsing with safari 3.1.2 - Any issues to watch out for?

Greetings,
I run Safari on my MBM on a HughesNet satellite based internet connection. Iffy at best - nowhere close to DSL. Quite a few ups and downs in service during the day ( according, as Hughes vaguely states, High Usage times, which seem now to extend to MOST of the time. Advice: try BEFORE you buy into satellite Internet - TechSupp, provided by "Sam", "Joey", etc... from Far East, is heavily scripted abd basically clueless - "Sam, we sleep in the US at 3am MST - High Usage cannot possibly be occurring at that time!!")
i have noticed however that overall, Safari can get very slow, and hesitant in loading pages, even when internet connection is half decent. IN FACT, sometimes, my iPhone loads up a given page faster then my MBP from a given location, when I have BOTH the MBP and the iPhone on WiFi through my wireless router and positioned next to each other.
I'll appreciate,
- Roger T
Any general pointers as to what can slow Safari down (browser settings, w. card settings)?

Going through some or all of this might help:
Empty Safari's cache (from the Safari menu), then close Safari.
Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete the following files:
form values
download.plist
Then go to Home/Library/Preferences and delete
com.apple.Safari.plist
Repair permissions (in Disk Utility).
Start up Safari again, and things should have improved.
If not, MacFixit have published a very detailed (very!) article on speeding up a slow Safari, here:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070416000657464
Many, including me, have also followed the advice given by others here to add DNS codes to their Network Settings, with good results in terms of speed-up:
Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu. Click on TCP/IP and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' enter the following two numbers:
208.67.222.220
208.67.220.222
Click on Apply Now and close the window.
Restart Safari, and repair permissions.

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