Apple tv - extremely slow syncing

I have a disk containing my itunes library connected to an airport extreme , and am syncing my library to my apple tv. My computer is 802.11n compatable (macbook) , my airport is 802.11n compatible and supposedly the apple tv is 802.11n compatible too.
When transfering files from my wireless disk it takes around 2 minutes to transfer a gigabyte of data , but when syncing the apple tv , a movie the size of 2 gb takes a few hours. I´ve tried running diagnostics on the apple tv and it says everything is ok , I´ve tried various fiddling with the settings in the airport with no luck . . .
Is this normal ?
Anyone got a clue what might be wrong ?
thanx

I don't consider my solution as the silver bullet as most of us treat the disease from looking at the symptom instead of the root cause and for a given symptom there can be many ailments. Here is what I did...
I replaced my Linksys router with a new Apple Airport Extreme router (simultaneous dual band) which is an expensive toy. The problem went away. It looks like that the wifi link from my mac mini to the router was unreliable and actual throughput was slow even though the wifi connection between my ATV and the router was strong (as they were close to each other). To support this idea, I found that my ATV never had any issue downloading movies from iTunes server online. My problem used to be playing my own home videos from my mac mini over wifi streaming.
One easy way to test this contention would be to connect the mac mini to the router using wired LAN. But, in my case I would have to run over 100ft of cable thru multiple rooms and I wasn't motivated to experiment with that test.

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