Will disabling peerguardian2 increase my internet surfing speed? Thanks.

[gary11364]

I do not want anyone monitoring my downloads and my hard drive so I installed peerguardian2. The peerguardian2 slows down my internet browsing a lot. Is it safe to disable peerguadian2 when I am surfing the internet(and not downloading) and not worry about anyone snooping? Thanks a lot in advance.

[Jeremiah58]

I doubt that you could benefit from running PG2 while surfing. Your main firewall should be enough for surfing.
It is a good practice to use PG2 with p2p programs, only.
There is a tab, though, to allow HTTP. When you allow it, PG2 shouldn't slow your surfing.

It is important to uncheck any logs (under Settings) or otherwise PG2 will save logs in its install directory (in Program Files). These logs could become very large in time, even several Gigs.

[guns1inger]

I have it running in the background all the time, and it has no noticable effect on my browsing speeds. If you have HTTP turned on it will block some web sites, which may in fact speed things up by stopping banners and crap downloading.

[redwudz]

I run Protowall on one machine, which is similar. It doesn't have that much effect on speed, compared to the protection it offers. I'd just let it run. But, as mentioned, watch out for the log files. When mine grew to 6MB, it did have a big effect on the speed of the computer, not the download speed. This was probably because it saved to a notepad format and that was overly large and slow to open and access with that program. Clean out the log often and you should have no problems