Who are these other people on my network?

Hello all,
I wonder if you can help. I'm a home office user.
I've had my iMac for around six months, but only recently bothered clicking on "Network" in my HD. I found a dozen other users sharing the same network. The number of users varies during the day - it can be up to twenty or so, or as few as ten.
If I double click on the other users, I get an AFP connection status prompt asking if I want to connect as a Guest or a Registered User. I don't want to go any further, obviously, as I don't want to connect my machine to a stranger's.
I can't delete other users from my network. I looked one or two of them up in the telephone directory, and they live nearby. Not in the same street, though in the same neighbourhood.
I understand that ISPs use local loops for high-speed users. However, I didn't expect to see them on my Mac network - or be prompted to connect with them (and, presumably, have them be prompted to connect to my iMac).
I expect this is an internet service provider problem, and I will contact my ISP helpline once I have heard from you guys whether or not this is a common occurence. I'm in France, and according to yesterday's newspaper a local MP has described calling my ISP's helpline as "a Kafkaesque experience"; a sentiment I fully understand - which is why I'm putting it off until I have as much information as possible.
Thanks in advance.
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In the US, broadband companies learned early on that they needed to filter out traffic between nodes. When broadband users here click Network, they will not see their neighbors' computers.
If you are connected wirelessly, however, you may be seeing other people on your network if you haven't locked it down.
If you're not using a wireless connection, and you're worried about security I would suggest activating the OS X firewall, creating a fairly complex password on your computer, and turning off file sharing. This is about as safe as you can reasonably get without 3rd party software/hardware.
The fact that you are seeing other computers just means that the Mac is aware of them, not that they're doing anything malicious. You can't "delete" them or kick them off because you're all on the same network.
I'm surprised your ISP hasn't filtered out this kind of traffice from node to node.

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