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Does the MacBook Pro support 5 GHz wireless?

Just got a new router that supports 5 GHz speeds on the wireless end. does anybody know if the MBP supports this? and if so how to turn it on?


Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2

Processor Name: Intel Core i5

Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s

Boot ROM Version: MBP61.0057.B0C

SMC Version (system): 1.58f16


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MBP, MM, MBP - 10.6 + Windooz XP on a hard partition

Posted on Mar 13, 2012 7:06 AM

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Posted on Mar 13, 2012 7:31 AM

Yes

It will find it automatically



I switched my 5GHz off on and just kept the 2.4GHz on my router, as I found it slowed some pages down


I believe you can check the transmition rate by clicking the alt key while selecting airport icon on menu bar

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