Cannot maintain wireless connection mac mini time machine

I have an iMac and a mac mini in the same room equidistant from my Apple TimeMachine.
While I have constant wireless contact on the iMac, the mini is constantly loosing connection, experiencing extremely slow response, etc. I have to go through diagnosis nearly everyday to have it reconnect to the internet. This started happening several months ago.

Use the advice in this thread to investigate the signal and noise levels that each Mac sees:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2347845&start=1
By the way, to avoid future confusion with forum posts, please distinguish between a Time Capsule (an Apple Wi-Fi base station with an integrated disk drive) and Time Machine (backup software included with OS X since version 10.5).

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I am receiving this error when trying to connect to my Time Machine Backup in my Time capsule. I input the proper password to access my Time Capsule and It returns me to the screen with the caption "The connection failed" under the Time Capsule name in the "Select your Disk" screen. What would cause this error. I am connecting via WIFI (AirPort) and have full signal. I am using Mac OSX 10.6.8
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To answer your question: Yes TM disk does show up in finder.
After my initial startup setup I was able to start TM and access all my previous backups. I migrated some files and was able grab the data from finder. Not satisfied with that I tried to do a restore to that previous date, to no success. I then erased the HD and reinstalled OSx and tried again from the setup screen. That didn't work, sulked over some beers. I then tired with Migration assistant...same result (more beer).
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can I use the same hard drive to back up two different Macs with Time machine? I'm ok with hot swapping the cables.
Message was edited by: Brian Monson

Brian Monson wrote:
can I use the same hard drive to back up two different Macs with Time machine? I'm ok with hot swapping the cables.
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