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How can I tell?
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What MacBook do you have (when was it purchased)?
Any MacBook with a Core2Duo processor has a draft-N airport card and a gigabit ethernet port. Before that, MacBook included a 802.11g card with gigabit ethernet.
Any MacBook with a Core2Duo processor has a draft-N airport card and a gigabit ethernet port. Before that, MacBook included a 802.11g card with gigabit ethernet.
Go to Apple Menu==>About this Mac, if it says Core Duo then you have a wireless g card, and giga (1000) bit ethernet. If it says Core 2 Duo you have a wireless n card, and giga (1000) bit ethernet.
Sorry, I guess I worded my question wrong. My MacBook does support Draft N and 1Gigbit Ethernet. I want to know how can I tell if it is running in either Draft N, G, or B mode while running wireless or 10, 100, or 1Gigabit mode when running wired.
Sorry for the confusion!!!
Thanks!!!
Sorry for the confusion!!!
Thanks!!!
It runs on all modes. It will run at the highest speed of the hardware it is connected to. Thus, if it connects to a G network it will run at G speed, if it connected to an N network it will run at N speed, etc.
Edit: Also note that your internet speed is more than likely slower than a B,G, and N speeds, so your internet speed will be the same no matter which network mode you run. The only difference will be the speed in which computers on your network can transfer data between each other.
Edit: Also note that your internet speed is more than likely slower than a B,G, and N speeds, so your internet speed will be the same no matter which network mode you run. The only difference will be the speed in which computers on your network can transfer data between each other.
But how can I tell?
For example, the 655 router mentioned that if I was to run WEP, then it will only run B, and G wireless and not N. Therefore, if I would have never came across that, I would be would not know that my system is not running in Draft N mode while using WEP. Therefore, I would like to know from my MacBook what mode I am running in to make sure.
Yes, but how can you tell if you're connected at b, g, or n? ...or 10/100/1000 ethernet?
I've been looking and I can't find it anywhere.
Me neither, looked in the two obvious places, System Prefs->Network and System Profiler and didn't see anything
For ethernet (en0) at least, entering ifconfig in terminal will tell you the current speed. For example, for me it says:
EDIT:
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
EDIT:
Fine, do it the easy way.
I wouldn't run WEP, its broken, WPA security is far more secure, and it has less problems.
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I think the only way to tell would be to check the specs of the router you're on. Sorry but I can't help you otherwise. Out of curiosity, why do you need to know?
I think the only way to tell would be to check the specs of the router you're on. Sorry but I can't help you otherwise. Out of curiosity, why do you need to know?
Just to make sure I am getting my moneys worth from my book and router, LOL. Even if technically, I am not getting more throughput using the Draft N or Gigabit Ethernet, I wanna still be using it if I paid for it.