Mac pro Jumping Bluetooth mouse fix

Hi found these links & thought I'd share after having to do the below external antenna mod myself to fix my poor Bluetooth signal strength between my 2010 mac pro my magic mouse.
It worked a treat!!! Thank you Nobblynoel!
How to test your Bluetooth:
http://nobblynoel.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/how-to-check-your-bluetooth-connectio n/
How to fix mac pro Bluetooth:
http://nobblynoel.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/mac-pro-2009-bluetooth-fix/
Please post if you found this useful & thank Nobblynoel.

We already have a 22 page discussion on this topic where the various methods are discussed and if memory serves, those, and other, links are mentioned.
See: Poor Bluetooth reception and jerky mouse
Update: see around page 14 of that discussion.

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I unfortunately assumed that I would actually need to open up the case and play with the wires just to disable the internal BT module so that I could connect a BT module.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4353470
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3095257
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=633522
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