Airport in iMac versus iBook G4

it's creazy,
my airport internetconnection is doing great with my iBook G4
the signal is strong (3 tot 4 bars)
and than my iMac ... that is a disaster
sometimess a connection is just not possible
and when it works I'am happy to have '1' bar
saying this, my iBook stays at less than a meter (1 m) from the iMac.
so, it isn't the express making the mistakes, it's the hard- and software in the iMac.
anyone interested in answering this ?
thank you in advance
3Peter
iBook G4iMaceMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

eh ! I'll try to answer that
I'am not a specialist :
iMac 4,1
Inter Core Duo
2 GHz
1 processor
Cores : 2
L2 : 2 MB
Memory : 2 GB
667 MHz
does this help ?
maybe also this
airport card : Airport Extreme (0x14E4, 0x89)
firmwareversion : Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.80.79.1)
this iMac was bought last year in juin,
I think it was one of the first of the new generation
greetings
3peter

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