Can I force 802.11g instead of 802.11n?

I have installed Leopard (erase and install) and have downloaded all the updates onto my MBP 2.16 MHz C2D. I was wondering if there is a way to force my MBP to connect to my D-Link DIR 655 router using g instead of n. I'm having the same problems as some other people where Airport shows full bars but I can't connect to any websites including my routers config page after having a working connection for some minutes.

When I set my router to g only my wireless connection works fine. However, I don't want to set it to g only since other people (Windows notebooks) and when I boot my MBP into Windows can connect using n without any problems.

This page http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107938 describes how to do it but I think it only works for Tiger since my connection rate still shows above 54 Mbps.

Thank you.

roger6106 said:

54 Mbps is G. N is 248 Mbps.

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I know that. That's why I said when I tried the steps in the provided link the reported connection rate was above 54 Mbps. It fluctuated and sometimes reported 130 Mbps. The reason why I said it was above was to show that the steps provided in the link didn't work and is probably only for Tiger and/or Panther.

I transfer files from as small as a few MBs to some GBs between my MBP and desktop often. Sometimes I transfer work files that can get up to a few GBs. I rip DVDs on my MBP and transfer them to my desktop. I like streaming video (low to high resolution videos) from my desktop and use my MBP to display the video onto my HDTV. Pretty much I transfer quite a bit of data.

802.11g has real world transfer rates of around 18-20 Mbps. This may be fine if I'm the only person on the wireless network but having more than one person using the wireless who are also doing similar things as I am then the split speed is not fast enough.

I was hoping this holding control while selecting a wireless network to connect at alternate speeds would work in Leopard as it did in the previous OS. I wouldn't have thought features would be taken away.