I can't get my brand new iMac to find my Time Capsule

Hi there,
I wonder if anyone can help me because I am pulling my hair out.
My old iMac recently died. It had been working merrily, connecting to my old Airport Extreme happily, but then had a major problem and needed to go. So after five years I bought a new one.
So I bought a 20-inch: 2.66GHz iMac.
All great but it couldn't pick up the signal from the Airport Extreme. While my old iMac always had 4 bars signal, this one struggled to have one.
I didn't mind too much. I'd also bought a Time Capsule.
Set it up. My old PowerBook G4 found the Time Capsule and set it nicely. My Mac Book Core 2 Duo found it and stayed connected with 4 bars right beside the iMac (on what I'm assuming is the g network).
The iMac can't find it. It can't see the g network and it can't find the n network.
I've checked Network Interface and the 'n' capabilities are enabled (it says 802.11 a/b/g/n under Model Wireless Network Adapter.
The 2.4 Ghz network is on channel 6 and the 5 Ghz is on channel 36
The Radio mode is automatic
I must admit, I'm not that techy but I've tried to follow all the support I can see.
Can someone help?

Welcome to the discussions, cavscott!
I'm sure you've tried numerous things to try to connect like restarts, turning the wireless off and on, checking for the right password, etc.
Have you considered the possibility that the wireless card in the iMac is either not installed correctly or may be defective?
Severe wireless inteference could be a cause of poor connection quality, but it's unusal to have no signal at all. If it's convenient, can you temporarily move the iMac to a few other locations to see if it gets a good signal? If you move it close to the Time Capsule and still see no signal, or very little signal strength, I think you have confirmation that the wireless card will need to be checked out.

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