Airport, PPPoE and Printing

Hello there.
I am new to Mac. I have always used windows up till now, so I am somewhat unsure of a few things. I have a wireless network in my home where I have four windows based PC's in different rooms and my brand new iMac in my room.
I have two printers connected to one of my PC's downstairs, and I wish to print with these from my iMac. The problem is that I cannot seem to see the printers when I search for them in the printer setup.
I had a look at sharing.. and the window told me that my iMac's IP is something like : [email protected] (not the exact) . This is my DSL service provider's account information. I selected "connect through PPPoE" in the network setup because that is how my network internet connection works the wirless hub holds the connection).
Now I think this may be a problem. Because it looks like the subnet masks are not the same on the Mac and Windows machines. When I uncheck the box that says "connect through PPPoE" I can set my IP, but I lose my internet connection. I don not understand what is happening!
I really need to get printing working. Anyone know what is wrong?
Thanks a lot!

Do you have a wireless router? If so which model?
Are you using NAT?
It sounds like that you are been assigned IP addresses by the ISP and not by a router.
Your IP address will be a number like this
10.0.1.5
192.168.0.6
or similar.
[email protected] is your user id for your ISP.
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