Possible to share AirPort with different security?

Raven VII said:

Is it possible for my Mac mini to receive a AirPort signal, then share it with a different security scheme? For example, my AirPort Extreme basestation is secured by WPA, then my Mac mini connects to that network, and then in turn creates a wireless network of it's own, that's secured by WEP. Is this possible? And if so, how do I do this? Thanks.

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In Sharing -> Internet, when you select the outgoing port as Airport, you can specify the new network's features via the Airport Options button, including a name, and a password. But you only get the option of 40 bit and 128 bit WEP keys. It doesn't seem like you can do WPA1/2. So if you're on a WPA network, I think you will automatically still create an open or WEP network under your Mac....

Oooh, yeah, I see you are correct now. It seemed to be working, but I couldn't actually use my internet connection.

Any chance you can run a wire from your AEBS to your Mini so that it could share via airport?

You wanted to use sharing with a less restrictive method so that you could turn it on and off easily when you want to play DS, right? I guess changing the Airport settings between WEP and WPA over and over again would be very tiresome.... 🙁

When I shopped for a handheld, WPA was very important to me. It's too bad the DS doesn't support it.