Apple TV 2 - Slow wireless streaming from iMac

I recently purchased the Apple TV2 after being very happy with the first Apple TV. The direct wireless streaming form my iMac to my Apple TV2 seems to be extremely slow. Music videos which played fine on my first Apple TV even though the Apple TV Hard Drive was at full capacity take like 2-3min to start and then still freeze up in halfway through. I have not changed anything other that swopping out the old Apple TV for the new one. At this point the Apple TV1 gives me a much better experience than the Apple TV2. My iTunes liabrary is on the external hard drive but this has never been a problem on my iMac or old AppleTV. What could be causing the streaming to be so painfully slow.... surely this could not be the intended Apple experience.

I did have many connection issues when I first got my ATV2- found it was the saturation of wireless networks around my house. I ran iStumbler to check out what channels were available- and found none- all channels had more than 1 network on it. I think the ATV2 can lose a good connection quite easily- causing it to take longer to buffer.
I upgraded to an Airport Extreme and ran the ATV and iMac on the 5Ghz channel- that helped big time (I was the only 5Ghz network broadcasting).
So, check it out with iStumbler for Mac and you may be suprised.

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