Geek question: stupid wifi tricks.

We have a shiny new Netgear WG602v4 11g access point. The old D-Link 11b point, apart from being D-Link, is less than spectacularly well-behaved and has had the crap kicked out of it a bit often. The Netgear's manual is a bloody hazard, but it's now behaving very nicely thank you.

I'd like to do stupid wifi tricks like using the 11g for the house and putting the 11b somewhere that will reach the garden. The 11b can be set up as a repeater. I could just leave the user to switch networks by hand as needed, but hey. The 11g does WPA, the 11b only does WEP — can it still repeat the 11g's signal, or does it need to be able to decrypt and re-encrypt the packets? I do not understand repeater mode.

I am listening to Gruftiradio (96kbps MP3 Shoutcast) over teh intarweb. I like this station. Amarok has several hundred radio stations in it. (Lots of 48kbps AAC+, which is way better than 96kbps MP3. MP3 is so 1991.) We were going through a pile of bad '80s stations last night. It's frightening. Also, try WFMU (40kbps Ogg stream), the "what in the blue blazes was that?!" station.