How do I tell my Macbook to not look for Shared drives?

Our internet connection has been slow at best and drops altogether frequently. I wondered if our old Base Station was to blame, so bought a $39 Belkin router yesterday. The speed improvement was instant and striking!
But now in Finder I see a list of Shared devices in the pane on the left that I have no idea where they are coming from, other than perhaps they are other customers of the isp we use.
I don't want my MacBook wasting time and energy looking for other people's computers over the internet connection, if that is what is happening. How can I tell it to stop that?

Follow Camelot's advice.
In addition, some routers control NAT services via whether or not you enable the DHCP server in the router. You should have it enabled. Some routers actually have a separate control for NAT server, if yours does it should be enabled.
With respect to your Mac looking for other computers with shared services, it does not work that way. Rather the other computers broadcast their availability, and your Mac sees that. You Mac is not polling, it is just listening.
And whether or not you are broadcasting availability of services on your Mac is controlled by System Preferences -> Sharing. If all are disabled, then you are not broadcasting anything.
Regardless, you need to figure out why you are seeing other services if you do not have any in your own home. So follow Camelot's advice.

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