Poor WiFi performance on new Mac Mini ?

My new mac mini purchased a few days ago (late 2009) was exhibiting abysmal WiFi performance on 802.11n 5Ghz. I was barely getting 1Mbyte/sec through it, despite good signal strength (-50db), and my iMac which is feet away on -58db is giving almost 18Mbyte/sec...
Anyway - after much gnashing of teeth, and even placing the mini next to my extreme basestation I gave up, then tried, out of desperation, resetting the PRAM... Fixed!
Why on earth a brand new machine should need this doing, I'm not sure, but the old Alt-Cmd-P-R at boot up, waiting for the second BONG, and then letting it continue, fixed everything, and it now zooms along as fast as my other Macs.
Just for info - hope it helps someone!

These are pings from my iMac to .02 (mbpro) and .11 macmini
the mbpro is sat right next to the mac mini... rebooting the mini sorts this out... Come on, somebody must have this problem as well?
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.765 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.787 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.765 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.888 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.862 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.911 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=1.197 ms
^C
--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.765/1.025/1.765/0.329 ms
imac1-sant:~ steves$ ping 192.168.0.11
PING 192.168.0.11 (192.168.0.11): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.11: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=667.107 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=180.341 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.11: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=99.633 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.11: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=22.600 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=250.583 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.11: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=173.842 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.11: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=96.888 ms

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