Can't connect to Access Point that is connected to the Internet (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)

Hi all,
I am normally not someone who posts on support forums since most of the problems can be solved be searching through piles of other questions, but this things has really got me pulling out my hair and I hope that maybe someone can help me with this super weird problem.
So, a few weeks back, my Mac Mini (kind of old, guessing 2007) stopped connecting to Wireless networks. Since all other devices in home (iPhone, MacBook Pro and a PC) are connecting just fine I thought it had to do with my settings. All it says is: "connection timeout".
The Mac Mini connects just fine when I plug in an ethernet cable, but that's a no go since I don't want cables laying around our living room that much.
I tried a lot of things suggested my other people like removing settings, PRAM reset, moving the AP closer, router settings etc etc. Of no avail. Even tried to fix it by reinstalling Snow Leopard, but that didn't do it either.
Though when I turned my MBP into an Access Point it could connect to that network just fine. That made me wonder if it's my router, but once I plug in an ethernet cable into my MBP to share Internet access it won't connect! Tried the same with my router and indeed, it connects just fine once it has no Internet connection.
Tried searching for people that had the same problem, but I couldn't find them. Can anybody here help?
TLDR; Mac won't connect to Wireless network that has an internet connection, but does when it hasn't.
Thanks!

Try disconnecting the router from the internet (WAN port) and plugging a PC directly into one of the LAN ports. After resetting, ignore the smartwifi login, click the two checkboxes, and login manually/directly with the "admin" password and reconfigure.
If you don't want to do all that just yet, try accessing the router from the public IP address assigned by your ISP. That might work

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I'm working from a boat in a harbor in which the ISP has deployed numerous access points around the periphery. All the access points share the same SSID and each is configured to use either channel 1, 6 or 11. From my location, there are over a dozen of these access points "visible" (based on the the output of WiFi Scanner) with a range of RSSI and S/N values that vary over time.
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I do not believe OS X maintains such a record of MAC addresses though, only those of the routers it uses. If I am correct about that, such a solution is unlikely to exist. Don't let that discourage you from searching for one though... I would concentrate on something like "selecting access point by specific MAC address".
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Event log from the wlc
AP event log download completed.
======================= AP Event log Contents =====================
*Mar 1 00:00:30.157: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to up
*Mar 1 00:00:30.161: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to reset
*Mar 1 00:00:30.190: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to up
*Mar 1 00:00:30.191: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to reset
*Mar 1 00:00:30.204: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to up
*Mar 1 00:00:31.190: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to up
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*Mar 1 00:01:12.094: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to administratively down
*Mar 1 00:01:12.094: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to down
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1 Normal Forw Enable Auto       100 Full   Up     Enable N/A
2 Normal Disa Disable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A
3 Normal Disa Disable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A
4 Normal Disa Disable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A
5 Normal Disa Disable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A
6 Normal Disa Disable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A
7 Normal Forw Enable Auto       100 Full   Up     Enable Enable (Power On )
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