Time Capsule 5Ghz Question/Inquiry

   I was just wondering, everything's working fine by the way. If I didn't create a 5GHz network or in other words didn't check the 5GHz box and only one network shows when I press (option) to expand info about the network and click on the Wi-Fi symbol bars in the upper right hand corner the list of available networks drops down and on my network indicates Channel 149 (5Ghz) transmit rate 450, does that mean that I'm actually operating on 5Ghz even though I didn't have the 5GHz box selected and Time Capsule automatically selected it on it's own and I'm actually operating off 5Ghz because Time Capsule selected it automatically even without the box being checked?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Thanks for your response!

   Thanks John for your reply. When clicking on the Apple logo upper left hand corner and about this mac and click on System Report button (it brings up the System Information screen) however I'm showing 2 networks on the System Information one is this for the Mac I believe:
This is Channel 149.1
PHY Mode:     802.11n
BSSID:     70:56:81:c9:d6:e2  
Channel:     149,1  
Country Code:     US  
Network Type:     Infrastructure  
Security:     WPA2 Personal  
Signal / Noise:     -59 dBm / -86 dBm  
Transmit Rate:     405   MCS Index:     23
and another one for my iPod Touch 4th which can only do 2.4GHz:
This is channel 1 (which is 2.4 GHz channel and the one my iPod Touch 4th must be running off of correct because iPod Touch 4 can't do 5GHz?
PHY Mode:     802.11n 
BSSID:     70:56:81:c9:d6:e1  
Channel:     1  
Country Code:     US  
Network Type:    Infrastructure  
Security:     WPA2 Personal  
Signal / Noise:     -41 dBm / -84 dBm
But under my network icon I only show 1 network and it's says 5GHz no other network but in system information both networks show up and I believe the Channel 149,1 is the Mac
and the channel 1 is the iPod Touch correct?

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