MacBook Pro losing Wi-Fi Connection - antenna connection problem

My wife started complaining two weeks ago about being dropped off the Internet using a Wi-fi connecion.We were just a few months out of the warranty period for the MacBook Pro 13 inch laptop that was purchased in March 2011. I had an old wireless router and went out and purchased a new one from Netgear. I had no problems with my Dell and HP Windows based laptops wi-fi connection anywhere in my house. We still had connectivity problems with the MacBook. I went on to the Mac user support community and found a lot of helpful ideas but none of them worked. I had loaded the Netgear Genie software - it shows when you are connected to your wi-fi router and has a signal bar graph that shows you how strong the wi-fi signal is from the router. I noticed that the only time the signal was strong was when I was in the same room with the router. I began to suspect the antenna or receiver in the internal wi-fi card in the MacBook Pro. I read online that the antenna for the wi-fi modem in the MacBook is in the display part of the laptop, while the wi-fi card is in the base. The antenna was connected through the hinge between the two. I wondered if the connection was being broken when I opened the display to the full viewing position (90 degrees). I tried a little experiment. With the laptop in the opened position and the Netgear Genie sigal bar graph being displayed, I walked down the hall from where the router was to a room where I lost the signal. I had no bars on the graph. I started closing the display on the laptop to about a 45 degree angle. The wi-fi connection came back and I had full bars on the Genie signal meter. I could also get onto the internet. Opening the display a little wider broke the wi-fi connection - and I'm sure also opened up the antenna connection to the wi-fi module. I'm going to contact Apple support to see if there have been any recall issues with this problem - I feel it is design flaw and that many other users are having the same problem - based on the number of postings I have seen with wi-fi connectivity problems. In the meantime, I have ordered a mini wi-fi USB adapter that is Mac compatable to bypass the internal wi-fi device for now.