Airplay keeps disappearing... Need some help and insight...

Hello!
I just bought an ATV2, but it seems to be having trouble to provide the airplay function.
I have almost every kind of device that can connect to it, iPhone 4 (4.3.3), iPad 2 (4.3.5), Windows desktop (connected to the network via ethernet cable) and a MBP (Lion) connected wirelessly, both on the latest iTunes.
When airplay fails, which happens all the time, it fails on all this devices. Both my MBP and Windows desktop have automatic time set for Apple's servers, so does the ATV2.
Sometimes resetting the airplay functionality on the ATV2 (from on to off to on again) seems to do the trick, but only for about 10 minutes. Other times, I have to either reset the ATV2 or even the network router.
Could this be related to the router? I´m also having problems (already did before the ATV2) with homesharing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn´t. I´m not sure what to do here, I´ve tried everything I could to try and at least narrow down the problem source, but I can´t.
Also, the ATV2 some times has problems connecting to my Apple account, giving me an error message, but seems to stay connected to youtube services, thus, to the internet.The ATV2 seems to be able to connect to the account again most times when I re-enter the details, but it has failed on occasion (I bought it yesterday, but have already tried so many things to solve the airplay that I´ve ran into this stuff many times during yesterday afternoon and today)
I´ve tried moving the ATV2 closer to the router, setting a fixed IP address on the ATV2 and the other devices, have the TCP/UDP 123 port opened, I don´t know what else to try.
I would really appreciate some help on this, something else to try. Can this be related to the router since I´m having homesharing problems too? Or can it be something wrong with my account at Apple (not that I think that matters for airplay, but I´m willing to try anything)
Thank you very much.

iStumbler isn´t currently working on Lion. KisMac doesn´t crash but can´t find any networks either.
When you say, try connecting with ethernet, you´re refering to connecting the ATV2 directly to the router with ethernet correct? That is a good idea, I didn´t remember to try that.
I did try changing the channels on the router, currently on 6, but I´m going to try to change to 1, 3 or 11 now.
I´m currently at a coffee shop, I came here to use their wireless network and try homesharing between my Mac and iPhone, which never or poorly works at home. So far its working flawless. Sometimes the iPhone takes a bit longer to reconnect to the shared library (for the icon to appear on the iPod app and then to open the selected library) then others, but in general, for the past hour and a half, its been connecting to the macbook without much trouble, hinting me that the problem at home lies indeed with the router.
Thank you

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