2007 Mac Mini Dropping WIFI constantly

Hello,
I have a mid-2007 Mac Mini with Snow Leopard installed, and it's located in a room about 20 feet away  from the access point. The connection to the room has never been that great for the Mini, but my iPhone 4S for example has no problem connecting to the WIFI. (The Mini seems to be really sensitive, but it does have good days as well where I get full bars). It's been on and off like this for over a year. 
The problem only started a couple days ago, where it cannot connect to the home network at all. When I put the password in, it instantly says "connection timeout". Or it will load to Google.com, but if I try to browse to anything else, it stops, the connection drops. 
It was working perfectly fine one afternoon and when I got back, it can't connect to it at all. I've never seen it struggle this much before, to simply connect to WIFI. I've had the computer for 5 years. Every computer, and phone connects perfectly fine to the network. I even tried moving the Mac Mini to a room where the router is just below, and it picked it up fine, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.
What can I do to fix this?

The App Store catalogs several free or low cost network analysis apps that might help identify low signal to noise, interfering networks, and available clear channels that might do wonders toward improved reliability. Depending on whether or not the router that is creating the network will support another device "extending" the network if all else fails an Airport Express  either in the room with your mini or perhaps in an intervening room might help.

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