Normal range for the Airport express in iMac

I have a pretty new iMac and since I installed I thought it has a low sensitivity. At the beginning I thought it was because the wireless router was too far, but yesterday I make a test and I put the router in front of the iMac, 3 meters of distance, direct vision without obstacles, and the wifi signal received by the iMac was 55% mesured with AirRadar. I think this is very low
Do you think there is any kind of problem with the Airport card? I read that in some versions of iMac there was a problem with the conexion between the antena and the card but I don't know if this happen in the latest versions of iMac

airranz, Welcome to the discussion area!
The wireless range should be much greater than that. It could be a fault of the iMac, it could be a fault of the wireless router, or it could be that wireless interference is destroying the wireless signal and drastically shortening the range.

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