After upgrading to itunes 11 home sharing to all devices, apple tv, ipad, itouch, doesn't work, or doesn't work for long. How do I fix it?

I followed a tutorial to downgrade back to iTunes 10.7, which worked but the home sharing still having issues. It will stream for a few minutes and then kick me out and tell me I need to turn on homesharing. If I restart itunes I can watch again for another few minutes before it kicks me out. I have adjusted my energy saver settings to see if that was the problem, (which it worked perfectly before the update with the same energy saver settings) That didn't help. What can I do to fix it? All of my home entertainment has been digitized to run through my 2 apple tvs, ipad, ipod touch, imac, macbook and then Apple goes and screws me with an assanine software update that renders all of their products worthless!
I have reset, reboot and restored my apple tv, so I know it is not that. And like I said, everything streamed perfect before I updated to Itunes 11 a couple weeks ago.
Any help would be great!!

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