Constantly Dropping From N to G on 17" MBP

Question

OK, my neighborhood is absolutely awash in g networks. I was forever having to manually move to a relatively clear end of the spectrum, only to find myself needing to move again a day or two later (one of my neighbors apparently shuts down his WiFi every time he's finished using it, thus he comes up on random channels all the time). So I finally bit the bullet and bought a 1 TB Time Capsule. Oddly, my Mini stays pegged on N channel 149, whereas my 17" MBP keeps dropping down to g. I do have an all-in-one that I spent a lot of money on a few years back and it only does g. Also, my iPhone is g. Any way to peg this thing to N? Anyway to kick it back up once it drops down to g? With the way things are, I've basically wasted $300 (the backup function of the capsule holds value to me, but not $300 worth all on its own). I work from home when not on a client's location and thus my network connectivity is paramount. And I do a lot of RealVNC between my MBP and my Mini, so I really do consume a lot of WiFi bandwidth. Or I would if I was constantly dealing with interference in the g band of channels...

Answer 1

Post and ye shall receive! After a bit more fighting with this thing, I discovered a feature that I thought was sorely lacking. Namely, the ability to have separate SSIDs for your different frequency bands. If you go into manual configuration of the Time Capsule, there is an advanced option that you can check that adds "(5 GHz)" to the SSID. Thus, you can set your Macs to prefer the N before the g or just eliminate the g altogether. So this should solve the problem. Thanks to those of you who popped into this brief thread and hopefully this will help someone else new to the Time Capsule down the line...