Dropped wifi signal

I live at an apartment complex that provides wireless internet connection. I've moved to another unit in the same complex and now, instead of having the internet antenna only 20 feet from my computer, it is now about 40 YARDS from my eMac. What is frustrating is to be browsing the 'net only to have the signal dropped all of a sudden with my eMac telling my that I am not connected to the internet. It usually doesn't reconnect after restarting the machine and it sometimes reconnects after I put my eMac to sleep for around 4 or 5 hours. Would it help to boost the wifi signal by purchasing an external antenna? If so, where on my eMac would I connect the antenna? If an external antenna is not the solution, does anyone have any other suggestions to solve my problem? I also recently had Elgato's EyeTV200 installed and I'm wondering if it is part my signal dropping problem. Comments? Suggestions? Thank you to all who respond!

Okay, I tried reinstalling OS X and it didn't solve my networking problem. However, something really weird came up. Another discussion site suggested that I try increasing the signal strength via a product from Quickertek. I contacted the company and they suggested to download iStumbler to test how much of the wifi signal my eMac is receiving. If it is 30% or less, he said, than I should consider buying their product. Well, not only did iStumbler indicate that I was receiving up to 70% of the complex's wifi signal, I was able to connect to the internet! Hallelujah!!! My computer would still drop the signal, but only after about 2 hours or so. Much, much longer than before. Not perfect, but acceptable. Everything was going okay until I followed the advice of another person on a discussion site which was to use Disk Utility and make sure everything was okay. I fired up Disk Utility and had it repair permission. Big mistake. It made many permissions corrections, but I am now unable to connect to the internet at all. It doesn't make sense to me that repairing permissions would cause this. But, all I can tell you now is that no matter what I try, I am unable to connect to the internet. My eMac is also unable to pick up ANY wifi signals from anywhere, even from my own DSL modem which is only eight feet away. I've tried Network Utility, reconfiguring the machine, and I've run out of ideas. Suggestions?

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