Mac mini AirPort reception

Reader Mark Boszko writes about the relatively poor AirPort reception of his new Mac mini:

"Perhaps it's due to the lack of a larger antenna around a screen, but I find that in an area of my house where two 17" iMac G4s get, on average, three 'bars' of AirPort signal in the menu bar icon, the Mac mini will get one bar, or drop out completely. Turning on "Use Interference Robustness" seemed to help a marginal amount, so the signal would not drop out completely, but still never more than one bar. There doesn't seem to be anywhere to plug in an external antenna, so I'm not sure how I might enhance the reception."

We haven't seen this issue with our Mac mini; however, our only point of comparison is a 15" Aluminum PowerBook G4 -- the two machines get nearly identical AirPort reception. We'd appreciate feedback from readers who have both a Mac mini and another Mac or Apple laptop with an AirPort Extreme card.

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