1. Never stop it. Mine runs 24 hours a day and has done so since 1999.
When you keep it running it's searching and downloading performance
gradually improve.

2. Since we have no details on your computer and internet connection
any advice could do more harm than good.

1. Is unfortunately not an option

2. My computer runs really fine, no problems whatsoever.
My internet connection: Download, Upload: 16384 kbit/s, 1024 kbit/s

Maybe something is wrong with my settings in bearshare?
- forced ultrapeer
- hosts 0
- uploads limit 250 (lowering or disabling wont help)
- dl limit 16380
- get up to 30 files at time
- 8 connections per file
- 20 connections total
- enable sparse files

I don't even have to download anything, just as I open up my browsing gets really slow.

Any idea?

try disabling the forced ultrapeer...that can really hog resources...I rather frown on the concept of leaving it on forever, as BS has a memory use problem which eventually catches up and bogs everything down..

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