Internet sooo sloooow on my new Mini... :-(

Hi.
After a long sojourn in Windows land I finally came back to Mac. I got a new Mini (1.66) and maxed out the RAM at 2 GB.
Generally it seems great. But the internet is soooo slooooow. I can run my ancient Win2k machine right beside it -- same network, same DSL line -- and the Mini (using Safari out of the box) takes on average 3-5 times as long to load anything.
I did a hardware diagnostic and it came up fine. I even completely erased the hard drive, reinstalled the OS, etc, no help.
It's really frustrating. My friends are mocking me openly for having dropped $$$ for a slower computer.
Any suggestions? Some funky setting Safari needs to run quick?
Any help would be very appreciated.
--JT

At last! Someone else has the very same problem. Mine is even more basic as where we live we don't have anything other than dial-up.
My new super-loaded (and so super sexy) Mac Mini arrived and was set up. Connection through that little USB modem was instant but the connection speed was a disaster. As a comparison I connected to the same line, same isp, same browser with my G4 tower . . . . and that connected in the same way as always . . . good speed and totally acceptable for dial-up. For fun I then connected (same line etc) with my friends old G3 PowerBook . . . . again it ran like a rabbit.
Back to the Mac Mini and that connected once again like a geriatric turtle!
The ISP said it was the phone line and totally ignored me when I pointed out that within the same fifteen minutes of my "test" that the results were so dramatically different. Pushing for a better answer I was then told that I shuld increase the RAM allocation to the USB ports / modem. Now how in heavens name could I do this? In the old OS9 days we all likely allocated RAM to applications but since OSX I don't think I have ever seen this pop up. Also with a gig of RAM in the Mini I would have thought that the dear little machine would have enough juice to do what it needs to do without my help!
By the way, we also have an old Compaq and that one was faster too. Now that hurts!!
I have tried various scrips . . . . no joy. The Apple tech I spoke with seemed to be "miles away" and showed very little interest and NO ONE seems to see the significance of the same line, same time, same browser and getting three good results and one lousy one . . . . on the Mini.
I am totally lost and can't think of anything else to do. Has anyone any suggestions??
G4MDD; G4 Sawtooth, and now . . . . Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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