Did I honestly pay 400 bucks for this??

A few months ago, I recieved an Acer Aspire 530 as a gift.

It's promoted to have one of the best wireless around and yet I can't sit in my school computer lab, NEXT to the wifi and get a connection. I can't sit two room away from the wifi at home or I lose the internet. In my bedroom I cant move any muscle or I lose the internet. I can't sit in the halls at school- no internet, wont connect. I can't connect to the internet without kicking everyone else off the internet and making it go to a local connection. I can't stay on the internet for more than 10 minutes at a time before it quits on me and says that there's no wireless. My friend's laptop will pick up wireless from four houses away, I can't even pick up the one in my own house. My Gameboy Dsi has a stronger signal strength. Like seriously.
What the.

I didn't pay 400 dollars for this. This is rediculous, nobody knows whats wrong with it- I've formatted, I've dumped, I've uninstalled and re-installed and it's still the same wireless. It's so frustrating! It's literally taking all of my strength to prevent me from whipping the whole freaking computer at a wall.

Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it only me. Cause I want my money back.

 

Use inSSIDer to see how strong is the wireless signal as seen by your netbook.
It's possible that antennas are not connected properly- you might want to unscrew the service hatch and confirm they are.
What's the wireless card you use? Are the wireless drivers up to date?
Make sure that power-saving for the Wi-Fi card is disabled in Windows (set to max performance/no power-saving)

 

Bad connection to the card, or a bad card are the strongest two probability.

Lesser could be a driver issue, a motherboard issue, or simply a setting/configuration issue.

 

If you can't fix the lose wireless card inside or reconnect all the antenna then:
Get a cheap usb wireless adapter maybe ? ..... ...