Apple TV constantly and endlessly restarting sync

My Apple TV is a few months old, and for a while was working fine and as expected. However a week or two ago, I attempted to purchase a season of a tv series from the iTunes store, and I initiated the purchase from the ATV. Knowing that would take a while, I went to work.
When I got home that evening, not only had the purchase not gone through, but all content on my ATV was gone. Back on my mac upstairs, it was attempting a new full sync of the 2500 or so items that need to be synced (including music). It progressed as slow as you would expect a wireless transfer of all that data to go, but it did progress, however it constantly restarts the sync. Sometimes it only gets to the second or third item (always starting with video, so they are big items at the beginning of the queue) and restarts, once it got to about item 13 or 14 (probably representing a 5-10% progress bar completion, as I said, it starts with large files), and then restarts again. It's been syncing almost non - stop (except a reboot to see if it would help) for over a week now, and as I speak...it's back on track one again.
At least this time, the hard drive doesn't show as empty, there is already about 10.5 GB of data on it and about 3.5 GB of photos, so some content clearly got across....so why does it need to copy that content again (it always starts with the same file, so yes, it's repeating).
I am really not sure what to do now

sounds like your network is unstable
test by connecting both devices to the router by ethernet cables
rather then wifi

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