Wireless N Compatibility with MacBook.

Greetings,
I recently upgraded our home wireless router from the trusty old Motorola SBG900 to a LinkSys WRT610N - mainly for the benfits of 802.11n.
It appears that all is working well - the MacBook under Leopard connects to the router at 802.11n speeds. The question is that under Vista, it "appears" that it only connects at 802.11g speeds.
I have done some digging, and the Vista Airport Card Driver says "Broadcom 802.11n", but the chipset (BCM4328) only lists 802.11a/b/g compatibility.
Soooo....
1.) How can I verify 802.11n connectivity in Vista?
2.) If I am NOT connecting at 802.11n, and the chipset does not support 802.11n, how does the Apple Airport Card in my MacBook get 802.11n under Leopard?
Thank you for humoring me.
With regards...

Greetings,
Well I did some more experiments and I found out that 802.11n is supported and on the 5 GHz band no less.
The Linksys WRT610N allows one to assign a separate SSID and connection standard for each of the supported bands - 2.4 and 5 GHz.
By doing this - setting the 2.4 GHz band to supported 802.11g only under one SSID, and the 5 GHz band to support 802.11n under another SSID. I was able to verify that the Airport Card in my MacBook does support wireless N in Windows Vista.
Happy days!
One behavior of note: before I made the settings change, the Network Connection Center in Vista reported that my connection rate was 54 Mbps. After the change at the router, and before changing the MacBook, the connection speed dropped to 48 Mbps. After changing the wireless connection settings on the MacBook, Vista merrily reported 270 Mbps - the same as Leopard.
Many thanks and sorry for using up the bandwidth.
With regards...

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