Apple TV dropping home sharing with Win 7 Pro

Judging by the amount of problems people are having with this I'm not really expecting a resolution but I thought I'd give it a shot. I bought an Apple TV last week. Been wanting one now for a while.. I must say, I'm really disappointed with my decision on buying one now. Being a Apple user for a while now (MBP, IPhone, iPods) I had hoped that this product would be much better. I've been messing around since I bought it just to get home sharing working. My main PC, being a Windows 7 pro machine with all my media on it is hard wired to my router. With iTunes open and home sharing on, the Apple TV will not see any of my music or video. Following some of the suggestion I've been reading here I've tried everything from uninstalling iTunes, Bonjour, deauthorizing the machine and authorizing. Opening up the relevent ports on my router and too many other options I can't remember. What I found out is then when I reboot my router, home sharing comes on, lasts for maybe 15 - 20 mins then I cannot access anything from that main PC again until I reboot the router again. All this time, when I cannot access my media, if I turn on my MBP and start home sharing on this machine it works everytime. Both my MBP and Apple TV or wireless and the main PC is wired. I'm guessing that maybe there's something that needs to be changed on my router but I've tried most things suggested with no results. Only rebooting it will get it working again for another 15-20 mins. And I am using the latest version of iTunes on both my MBP and Windows PC. I even tried disabling the firewall on the PC and it still doesn't fix the issue. I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on this very frustrating issue. At this point I'm ready to bring the Apple TV back and buy something different.

Hi there BaldElvis,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
-Griff W. 

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