Does anyone know how to switch off the internal wifi test use a wifi dongle at a usb input?

HI
I am having problems connecting to wifi with a new Mac.
I have tried all kinds of things like shifting and monitoring my router's channel.
Short of using a power cube or crawling under the house and running a cable I have decided perhaps to use a Netgear wifi dongle.
I would like to switch off the internal wifi and allow the external device to connect.
With a new machine I really don't see why I have to do this.
Incidentally all my old devices have no problems with the wifi signal.
Cheers
Jack

Thanks for the suggestions.
Yes I have done all that was suggested on that site.
i have also been in contact with Apple Care.
I have also reset the router firmware.
I downloaded a piece of software called inSSIDer and checked out other wifi channels in the area. I moved my preferred channel to another ones that looked better however that is back on auto now and the router seems to be picking up channel 6 which is the best one and scores the most points.
I use a netgear wifi dongle on my 'smart' tv and was thinking of using that however I am beginning to thisk that 'powerline' products may be the answer.
The Mac is only two weeks old and I seem to be messing about with the wifi connection most of the time.
I actually cleaned the whole disk and reinstalled the operating system earlier this week.
Desperate or what!
Sometimes I think I should just return it but I like to solve problems and will keep going for a while before I lose patience.
Jack 

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